Micro,
I did try rebooting the computer - run into the same thing with the GPU slot - it tries a good number of times - didn't count them - but continues to error out with that same error about the GPU MEM.
Came into the laptop and was going to switch it to 7 and checked on the work unit to see how close it was to finishing the current one - and low and behold, it was about 7% on a client that will be back to over 3000 ppd. So will leave the laptop alone for a while.
Go figure!
Sun :-)