I have created a case w/ Microsoft thru Dell about this issue.  They want me to boot one of my clustered servers into VGA mode and try the same process on a non-clustered database.  Unfortunately, my units are in production and to bring one of them down to "test a theory" is not feasable anytime soon.  Can one of you who are having this issue, that may not be in production yet, try booting in VGA mode and seeing what happens.  Microsoft seems to believe that it may be a corrupted VIDEO driver causing the issue.  Our servers were built from the Dell Factory and all we did was load SQL on them and cluster them.  So if it's a driver corruption, it's happening during the SQL install, or SP update or a bad driver from Dell.

Please post if anyone can do this.