T61p will not power up after BSOD/shutdown (sometimes...)

In the last couple of days, my T61p has exhibited bizarre "Power" behavior. Yesterday and today, after a BSOD, it would shutdown and get stuck in a loop trying to reboot so I had to to a hard shutdown using the power button. After that, the Power button went dead, and no amount of pressing it achieved anything (A/C only, no battery connected). I tried the unplug power cord, press Power 15 times and hold for 30 sec trick, but to no avail. I had to remove the CMOS battery, unplug the keyboard and plug in the power cord to get it to start. It went to config, I set date/time, saved, and it booted to Windows. After using it for a few hours, I tried a shutdown but while it did shutdown, a few seconds later, it rebooted on it's own. After shutting it down a few times, it finally stayed shutdown. And lo and behold, the Power button started working again. Until today when, after another BSOD, I had to go through the same steps outlined above.
I called Lenovo support, and after telling me my machine was no longer under warranty (no kidding... ), they told me I need a new motherboard. I'm not convinced... Note that I never get any "beeps" signaling hardware issues.
Note that I never get any "beeps" signaling hardware issues, nor do I have any "Hardware Events" in event viewer.
I do however, get BSOD's almost every day. And 99% of the time, they refer to netwlv64.sys, which is a well known issue with the Intel 6945AGN wifi card not being supported in Win 8. Heck, it's been even worse since I updated to win 8.1. I wonder if, at this point, my Windows install has been corrupted by all these BSOD's/shutdowns. I do have a new wifi card on order (already have Middleton BIOS) and I plan to install it and then re-install Win 8 to see if these issues persist, before I go hunting for a motherboard.
Any thoughts/comments/advice would be appreciated.

Justbob, you can try removing the wifi card, it's not needed to run the laptop and would be an easy way to see if it was causing the problem. As far as windows versions go I prefer to wait at least a year after the release of a new version. Microsoft tends to replace their windows version just after getting the product stable. Windows Seven is very stable on your model as is Vista, which is actually turned out to be a very good OS after the bugs were worked out. Regarding version 8.x, several members have been happy using it on this series and some have not. I haven't seen any clear advantage to upgrading especially considering the cost.
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