Well, now I have a very interesting issue.
Had two 4850's up and running with the 8.11's and a fresh format of vista. Decided that I wanted to go back and better my windows format.
I used the SAME exact method, now the system does not recognize crossfire, and when I look in the hardware manager, it shows the second card having a "Code: 43" error.
I took each card out and swapped it to make sure each card works, which they do. But now it does not see my crossfire config, yet I did not do anything differently.