Various things shutting my computer down

read my later post in the thread about the newest problem
i was having this problem a few days ago and decided to just reinstall (nothing else going on one night so i redid everything), but this problem is still happening. it started after upgrading to xorg7: my computer just randomly decides to shut down, and it looks like gconf is doing it. i had another thread going earlier for a few days but started this new one since i edited everything out of the old one saying the problem was fixed. im running GNOME, using a few applications and all of a sudden my computer is shutting off, unannounced. this has happened probably 18 times in the last week, all abrupt hard shutdowns and they all leave the same footprint in /var/log/messages.log pointing towards something with gconf. im somewhat new to linux (8 months of every day experience) and am not sure where to go about this. since it looks to me like gconf is the culprit, and its shutting me down fairly often, i just want it gone. i dont use it (maybe i do but dont know it), but a bunch of stuff does.
anyone know a fix to this?
let me know if you need more information/log files
here is /var/log/messages.log after my most recent shutdown (the first one since reinstalling noodles): http://briancurtin.com/messages.log.txt

thats a correct assumption, havent touched mkinitrd.conf. i read that the default should be alright for the most part, so being the new guy to arch that i am, i left it how it was. i look a lot stupider now blaming problems on gconf when it was something i left out and didnt know how to do.
mkinitrd.conf
# Initial Ramdisk setup
# Attention:
# You need only the stuff to be able to mount your root device!
# USB/FW are only needed if you boot from such devices!
# REMOVE_IDE: removes the complete IDE subsystem
# REMOVE_SCSI: removes the complete SCSI subsystem
# REMOVE_SATA: removes the complete SATA subsystem
# REMOVE_CDROM: removes cdrom support
# REMOVE_USB: removes the complete USB subsystem
# REMOVE_FW: removes the complete Firewire subsystem
# REMOVE_RAID: removes the complete Software RAID subsystem
# REMOVE_DM: removes the complete device-mapper/LVM subsystem
# REMOVE_FS: removes the complete Filesystems
# (you have to include the filesystem in kernel then!)
# AUTODETECT: enables Arch Linux autodetection
# HOSTCONTROLLER_*: specify the modules you need to setup the subsystem "moduleX moduleY",
# empty means all modules are included
# FILESYSTEMS: specify your filesystem modules here, eg. "ext3 reiserfs"
# empty means all modules are included
# USB_TIMEOUT: value means seconds to wait for bringing up usb disks
# CRYPT_DEVICE: the path to your encrypted root device, if you use one
# RAID_DEVICES: a space-delimited list of the devices belonging in
# your /dev/md0 (root) RAID array
# (eg, "/dev/hda3 /dev/hdc3")
# ADD_MODULE: adds modules e.g. "moduleX moduleY"
# REMOVE_MODULE: removes modules e.g. "moduleX moduleY"
# To rebuild initrd for Arch standard kernel just rerun 'mkinitrd auto'
# Disable whole subsystems by setting to "1"
REMOVE_IDE=
REMOVE_SCSI=
REMOVE_SATA=
REMOVE_CDROM=
REMOVE_USB=1
REMOVE_FW=1
REMOVE_RAID=1
REMOVE_DM=1
REMOVE_FS=
# Enable auto-detection of HOSTCONTROLlER and FILESYSTEMS (set to "1")
# (NOTE: This is still experimental, so it is disabled by default)
AUTODETECT=0
# Define which modules are needed by adding "moduleX moduleY"
# If left empty, all modules are included if they are not disabled above
HOSTCONTROLLER_IDE=
HOSTCONTROLLER_SCSI=
HOSTCONTROLLER_SATA=
HOSTCONTROLLER_USB=
FILESYSTEMS=
# Number of seconds to wait for USB devices to settle
USB_TIMEOUT=5
# If you have an encrypted root filesystem, set it here (eg, /dev/hda4)
CRYPT_DEVICE=
# If you use software RAID for your root device then list all the devices
# that belong to your root array here. If your root RAID device is
# something other than md0, then change the RAID_ROOT_ARRAY setting.
# eg, RAID_ROOT_DEVICES="/dev/hda3 /dev/hdc3"
RAID_ROOT_ARRAY="md0"
RAID_ROOT_DEVICES=
# If you use LVM on your root device, then specify it here
# eg, LVM_ROOT="/dev/vg_root/lv_root"
LVM_ROOT=
# Define additional modules here
ADD_MODULE=
REMOVE_MODULE=
hwdetect --ide
HOSTCONTROLLER_IDE: generic piix
hwdetect --modules
MODULES=(cdrom agpgart intel-agp hw_random lp ppdev rtc evdev pcspkr serio_raw parport parport_pc pci_hotplug shpchp nvidia snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-timer snd snd-ac97-bus snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 snd-intel8x0m soundcore ide-cd ide-core ide-disk generic piix 8139cp 8139too mii pcmcia_core rsrc_nonstatic yenta_socket usb-storage usblp usbhid usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd eth1394 ieee1394 ohci1394 sbp2)
thanks a lot man

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