3.8.1 started locking up

[atrick-pay]

I had 3.7 HD-installed with noscsi nodma cheats,
Decided to reinstall with 3.8.1, so I downloaded and burned
and booted the cd without any cheats, no problem.
So I installed it without cheats still no problem.

Now the second day it started freezeing up on me
with a high CPU load (Playing XMMS and loading Oo.org would do it).,
I fsck all the drives, no change. So now I've added the
nodma cheat back and seems to run fine again.
It's only the first coupe of days but I thought I had already done
some high CPU load stuff with DMA enabled.

I also have a coupe of errors on boot right around where it mounts the Swap drive.
I get 4 lines of: Mkdir no file or directory ";' no such ..........
and later another one shows up: ls no /home/*/desktop

I'm just wondering if I should go ahead and reinstall it
or if somebody has any idea what could be going on.

[atrick-pay]

Full error message. appers at first boot from HD (re)install.

mkdir: cannot create directory `' : no such file or directory

I'm pretty sure it's really two errors but that is all it says.