One further clarification:
To make a 'clean' system disk that can be put into another system, remove all the /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistant* and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*eth? and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*wlan? and /etc/X11/xorg.conf files.
I think you found the error in my way! I was running while I did it. I'll keep this email and refer back to it next time.
Out of curiosity now, I also deleted my xorg.conf but if I leave inittab set to 5 it hangs? If I boot to 3, then init 5, it works fine? It also didn't recreate the xorg.conf file?
Thanks for everything! jlc