Thanks for the replies.

I have the tablet running with the RD kernel in rd-mode

And that stopped the crashing. On a side note, I tried rd-mode with the standard kernel, and it was still crashing.

Also, editing default.prop for dns helped. I just put the opendns DNS servers in there and now it it is working fine.

At this point, the device is running in rd-mode with the rd-kernel, the userland is on the SD card, and wifi is working great. The system browses faster then with the default OS and browser. Very good stuff.

I guess the next thing I was going to look around for is someone mentioned an open android market. I will be looking for how to get that installed on here and try out some other applications.

Thanks for all the hard work.
Jim