Sorry... Forgot to mention that I had checked the BIOS settings and
disabled all the power save features already..  So it's not the BIOS
settings, not the setterm settings, not the X settings (I'm not even
running X)..  Any other ideas?  Like I said, it seems to do it only when
I'm logged in as root.  I'll make sure of that for sure though and double
check all those settings before I post to the list about this again k?

Don