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I put back in my original cmos chip, and put the newly flashed one back in iopener.
I was more than relieved to see the older style boot screen, and went into the bios.
Sure enough, there was the option to select another boot device. Success!
I tore apart my laptop and connected its hard disk to the custom 44pin IDE cable (every other pin is flipped) and the backwards IDE header on the board. 
This Hard Drive Had windows 98 on it, and really wasn't being used at the time, so it was okay if I had to trash the OS. Booting up with it, it detected all the new hardware and bugged me for a lot of drivers. Since I had the .cab files from the win98 cd on the hard drive, I managed to get most of it what it wanted. I felt like the 2001:a space odyssey theme music was playing and I was the monkey beating up the skull with a legbone. I had conquered the machine. I knew I also wanted audio-out on this thing, so I did plenty of research on it, and just ended up cutting the wires to one of the speakers and running it to a headphone jack. This sounded fine with headphones, but when I hooked it up to the stereo, it sounded like utter crap. So I went back to the drawing board and checked out one of the alternative methods. Boy, there were a lot of methods out there to make the output of this thing sound good. I ended up using this guide HERE as it was the simplest and I am not really a EE. It only required some wire and two 1K 25volt capacitors (or maybe they are voltage regulators?) surface soldered to some tiny resistors on the PCB. 
See the Blue highlighted areas on my reference illustration. This was much better, and very simple. There were a bunch of people using op-amps and such, but I didn't use one. And I am plenty pleased with the solution. 
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