A mind of it's own...

I've been posting about the situation(s) I've been having with my dual 2.0 GHz G5 (June 2004). Well, it's booting again and has actually run a few times (before randomly freezing up-no KP, just everything stops).
The problem is that it seems it will only boot when it wants. Every single time it gets to the grey screen with the Apple, and practically every single time the gear will spin. However, it will hardly ever get past that. I'm to the point now where I flip the mouse over to see the red light come on when it first starts, then briefly go out when the grey screen comes on. If the red light comes back after the brief pause (the time between the first grey screen and the spinning gear) then I know it will continue to boot-I'll hear the hard drive start to chirp and it will load. If the light doesn't come back, then it will sit there in silence and spin it's little heart out.
I guess my question is, what causes it to boot and sometimes not. If I go into single user mode, majority of the time it will take a while for any text to show up and report that it's looking for the root device. Other times it almost instantaneously takes me to where I can type commands. I've erased the hard drive, installed a clean OS, swapped RAM, PMU, PRAM, NVRAM-you name it. Would it be worth Zero-ing the hard drive, rather than erase? Does it sound like a logic or processor failure?
Sorry about the long post but the last time it booted, it ran for over five hours before freezing so I know it can do it-it just has a hard time doing it and is anything but reliable.
Also, my hard drive says it does not support S.M.A.R.T. Does this mean anything?
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It worked flawlwssly...for just under 2 hours and then:
Mon Dec 24 17:23:31 2007
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 1): 0x700 - Program DAR=0x00000000FFF3F4DB PC=0x00000000090588
atest crash info for cpu 1:
Exception state (sv=0x32654780)
PC=0x02F05288; MSR=0x00081030; DAR=0xFFF3F4DB; DSISR=0x400
Mon Dec 24 17:25:12 2007
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 1): 0x700 - Program DAR=0x00000000FFF3F4DB PC=0x00000000090588
atest crash info for cpu 1:
Exception state (sv=0x32654780)
PC=0x02F05288; MSR=0x00081030; DAR=0xFFF3F4DB; DSISR=0x400
It didn't randomly freeze this time. I got the full fledged drop-down -like a horrible black curtain-Kernel Panic. Anything useful in that log? Are a KP and freezing the same or similar. Either way I have to hold the power button to shut down.
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