System Unstable-- Help!

I recently put together a system and I've been having a lot of trouble getting it stable WITHOUT any tweakings.  It'll boot into Windows XP no problem, it'll even run for a while without issue, and then it'll randomly just restart.  I've got the 865PE, P4 3.0C, Mushkin Level2 PC3500, Radeon 9600Pro.  At first i thought it was the vid card since at one point XP was telling me that it was actually causing my system to be unstable, so i uninstalled all the drivers and now am using the Omega drivers since other people have said they work well (maybe even better than the ATI?).  No longer get that error message.  Then I used Sandra to run some tests.  The CPU tests go fine without issue, even in a loop, but the memory tests don't go so well.  I can get the benchmark to run once, but if I try to make it loop it'll just restart near the end of the first loop (not even completing one).  So, I'm thinking it's the RAM.  I've tried using all sorts of timings, tried increasing the power to differing levels up to 2.7, played around with Performance Mode and Dynamic Overclocking, all to no avail.  I'm not sure what BIOS I had originally, but I flashed it to v1.9 and tried the same stuff and it still shuts down on me.  The only thing I haven't done is use memtest86, which I will do this weekend, but assuming there is nothing wrong with the RAM does anyone have any suggestions?  The Mushkin RAM uses Winbond BH5 chips, which are also found in OCZ PC3500 Platinum.  Anybody have any experience with either of these types of RAM?  Thanks.
Oh, and I've also been getting error messages from XP about the General Host Process for Win32.  I've read that that has something to do with SVCHost, and most people who got that error had the Blaster worm (which I do not).  Something about too much bandwidth being used at once.  I'm planning to just reinstall XP because of it.  Perhaps that's part of the problem....?

For your CPU and video card this PSU is on the light side. When you look at the actual spec's, you will see that the 'normal' load for the +12V is 6A. Your CPU can draw over 10A and your video card can do another 4-6A.

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