Alright, after spending over a week on this, I'm fresh outta ideas after all I've done.
Last Monday I shut down flawlessly on my computer running Win XP Pro. The next day I boot up, Windows gets to the loading screen and then shows me the infamous "blue screen of death". It suggests rebooting and seeing if the error comes again, and of course it does.
I suspected it was hard drive corruption so I put in a new drive and installed Win XP Pro onto that drive (today) after I did tests on the other HD.
The installation goes through and I get into the OS on the new hard drive. About 30 minutes into installing my programs back to the new hard drive, the computer restarts. I didn't really suspect anything because the computer restarted without any errors or problems resulting from it. So I get back to re-installing programs and then it restarts again except this time it produces a different result.
On this second self-reboot, when it gets to the Win XP Pro loading screen, low and behold the "blue screen of death" is back with the same error.
The error states: A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer (I did, didn't work)... Technical Information: STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001901FD...)
If anyone can give me any ideas or suggestions..please post here. I've already switched drives and reinstalled Windows but this move obviously proved unsuccessful.