Hi rjwilmsi,
I'm on ASUS's website now, but it's not easy to navigate. I have never used the EZflash utility but i am aware that i have it and have found instructions on their site as to how to use it.
I have had suse 9.0 before booting fine (but i didn't make the CD's) so was suprised when these didn't boot...
Can you suggest and MD5 check utility? I downloaded MD5summer (i think that was the name) last night and it crashed my pc