Sorry, I'm tired. I barely understand my post myself!
I was able to figure it out. Basically I flashed my bios to update to the newest version (on a new build, prior to installing the OS) and everything went smoothly. After installing windows and subsequently the Asus Chipset Drivers when I would boot up it would go into this dos program that said "Asus: Make a disk for dos" and asked me which one I wanted to make...gave me like three options...blah blah
I basically just took the driver cd out of the drive and did a hard reboot and it then went to windows. I had to do this a few times before all the drivers were eventually installed, but it worked.
So...that's what I was trying to figure out. Thanks anyways!