My next strategy is to go ahead and reinstall and use the updated drivers from NVidia and see if that works it out. Upon contact with NVidia I learned that with the 4363 drivers there was an incompatibility issue with Red Hat Linux 9, thus probably the reason why Fedora Core bombed too. I will try it tonight and I will let you know how it goes. Hopefully incompatible drivers are my only problem.
Strange, I've been running RH9 under my GF4 4600 Ti for months with the NVIDIA 4363 drivers without a single problem.
-Chuck