I've tried all sorts of kernels and distributions with similar results. I decided to try Arch Linux and compile my own 2.6.17.8 kernel and see if it fixes any of the issues. It doesn't. The system boots, but I have some odd errors that pevent certain things like ndiswrapper for example from working correctly. In fact, ndiswrapper causes a kernel panic. And no this isn't an ndiswrapper issue because the kernel reports errors even without it installed. Ndiswrapper is just an example of an application that is affected by it. I'll paste my system files so you can see what errors are being reported. I wanted to post this here on LQ before I post it on Linux Kernel Mailing List to see if anyone knew a solution. I've already attempted acpi=off, irqpoll, noapic, and other similar commands in different combinations with no luck. The following logs are from Kernel 2.6.17.8 with NO additional boot parameters attached. The kernel was compiled on Arch Linux 0.72 with GCC 4.0.3. Sadly, pastebin is slow as fsck, (hell hasn't frozen over yet) so I'm using my schools domain. Thank you for your time.

http://smnw.com/staff/nick/share/dmesg.log
http://smnw.com/staff/nick/share/errors.log
http://smnw.com/staff/nick/share/everything.log
http://smnw.com/staff/nick/share/lspci.log
http://smnw.com/staff/nick/share/messages.log