Just got a new computer...having a bit of a problem though

[ShunNakamura]

You don't seem to be using any NTFS so I am seriousally starting to get stumped by this... I'll do some more searching and see what I come up with.

why couldn't it be the NTFS that is the problem *gumbles*

well lets try this then it may help a bit.

patch-0.2.10.gz
This is the most current patch for 2.0.31-2.0.33 kernels
Kernel patch made against 2.0.31. It works with 2.0.31 to 2.0.33. When applied to 2.0.33, you will get a reject in linux/fs/vfat/namei.c.rej. You can ignore this reject since this piece has already been applied.
Incorporated into 2.0.34
Changes Linux kernel to recognize LBA extended partitions (type 0xf)

this may help a bit since it seems a large chunk of space is on a Extended LBA partition. So I don't think it would hurt to try this and see what happens.

http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html

Hmm.. that site actually has a fair bit of info. You said you think that CPU builder's linux is based off of redhat right? well looks like redhat isn't a real good linux at all, at least it seems to need more troubleshooting.