haha yeah, but i have been writing them at 4x, too. on a dvd-r

so i pushed F8 alot when it started spinning, put in -v, and it said it was loading a bunch of stuff and rebooted...

Well my last thought then is (if you by no means can get into the promt (F8)) that the kernel
doesn't like someting. A far as I know it's Voodoo as a default. The only thing you then can do is fool around with some bios settings and hope that is the solution.

If you can get into the promt lots more can be done.

Grub or the bootloader are no issue cos your not booting of your harddrive.
If the DVD is ok the kernel is next.

(Actually the kernel is NeXT but that's a insider joke) :)

Ahh overlapped posts again.

What's the "bunch of stuff" exactly?

well i can get to the terminal. do you mean the place where you type -v and other commands?

Well to put it right: The "begining" is not the terminal, it's the boot prompt and you can't put in commands but only boot flags.
Flags for example like -v -f -s -x and lots more.

-v-s lets you boot into the unix terminal try that for a start. Does it reboot?
Also try -v-f. Any difference?

terminal???? wtf is he talking about?? if u mean when u hit F8 and u get the little thing where u can type, type -v and tell us what the last few lines are before it restarts
EDIT
god... beat me to it AGAIN lol

Yup! :) This is getting crazy...

I'm sorry... lol but the last 2 things that come up when i do -v is the extensions.mkext

Try -v -f (mind the space)