It occurred to me while debugging my 3d camera that rotations are far to rotatey. R^T = R^-1 = R(-a) which means if you have a bug it can be confusing and potentially work to some degree even though really your code is completely crazy. In this case I was uploading rotations into opengl that were row major when it is in fact column major. Another amusing thing is if your rotation is several rotations such as R = r(a)r(b)r(c) then R^-1 = r(c)^-1 * r(b)^-1 * r(a)^-1 which means your rotations are now going to be done in a different order in the opposite directions.
I would also like to thank my marvell yukon network card for failing at life. It was trying to offload checksum calcs in vista but doing a worse job than my CPU. So much so that it was causing team fortess 2 to be inoperable. Luckily these things can be adjusted.
