Hi Swoon,
Back from traveling again and I have repaired my System Restore. Albeit not the way I would have wanted. Instead of doing a full reinstall I did a repair install. It worked, but I was looking forward to doing clean install and creating a drive image with SP1 and all updates so I would not worry about this again.
Right now I am installing all the motherboard updates minus the bios update. I will check for any improvement in system performance. If the pauses persist i will do the bios update.
