Honestly I think my problem was due to a mis communication with the electricion, he shut down power prior to letting me know, and my rig got a less than graceful down, and then reboot seconds later when he was messing with some things, so, my problem may be just due to some bad luck.

I am still a Striker fan, as I believe the cpu-init bug is just that a bug, something to do with the power regulators on the board. I did not try remove all the psu coneections prior to mailing it back, should have done that as that is one of my normal troubleshooting things. Oh well, just forgot.