New Mem Problem - NEO-FIS2R

So, I've had Corsair CMX512-3200LLPRO - 512MB 400MHz x2 forever, and never had any problems with them. Last night I replaced these with TWINX2048-3200C2PRO (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145587.)
I immediately started having a problem - when I would restart the computer, it'd shut down normally, and while the "innards" of the computer were all on and running, the monitor would go black, and nothing would happen. I found that if I hit the reset switch, I'd get a normal boot up.
With a little experimentation, I found that I could restart properly if Cool & Quiet was disabled in the bios. I also tried Memtest, but while I believe I got a ton of memory errors, I don't really know how to work Memtest, and sure don't know how to interpret results (I was running Memtest off a boot CD).
Any ideas on what I should test for, or change, or suspect?
Help would as always be greatly appreciated.

So, good news and bad news!
I got my two new sticks of RAM. Newegg.com wouldn't send the new RAM until it received the defective RAM, and this annoyed me a bit so I bought the new sticks from a different vendor (ZipZoomFly).
First thing I did with the NEW new RAM was to make sure the timings and voltage were correct in the bios, then I ran Memtest to check them. Memtest gave the RAM a clean bill of health, so I booted to the desktop, and used the comp for hours afterwards. All went perfectly.
That's the good news. Not a single error or crash, which happened all the time with the OLD new RAM.
The bad news is that when the computer is restarted, just like before it won't boot to the desktop. Instead, it seems to go to sleep. I can hit the reset button and then it'll boot to desktop. This only happens when Cool & Quiet is enabled, however. When it isn't, everything works as it should.
It bothers me that I can't have C&C enabled (even though my comp doesn't seem to run cooler OR quieter with it), but I'm content as long as I'm not crashing, and I'm not.
Anyway, if anyone has anything more for me to try, I'd love to try it, but for now, I'm fine running with C&C disabled.
Thanks again for your input thus far!

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