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AMD.com lists the maximum operating temps as follows.
Athlon XP with Palomino core max operating temp is 90 degrees Celsius, 194 degrees Fahrenheit
Athlon XP with Thoroughbred core operating at 1733mhz or less is 90 degrees,194 degrees Fahrenheit
Athlon XP with Thoroughbred core operating at 1800mhz or more is 85 degrees, 185 degrees Fahrenheit
So I don’t think that the temperature is your problem
Sometimes you can find the problem by logging the error event.
To set your system to log error events
Open System from the Control Panel. On the Advanced tab, under Startup and Recovery, click Settings. Under System Failure, check the box Write an event to the system log
Now when you shutdown and your system hangs and crashes it will write an error event to the log
To view the event viewer click Start, click run, type “ eventvwr.msc /s ” (without the quotes) click OK
The event viewer will display the errors that caused the system failure look in there to see if you can find what is causing the error event and post it back here.

what kind of cpu fan do you have? its probably not heat...but always eliminate possiblities so the next step i would try is just a different fan
if the cpu fan doesn't fix it, does it always boot to windows a freeze up, or just while booting?

It never freezes while booting, it freezes while doing normal activities. In games, web browsing, on irc, etc. It doesn't seem like a specific event causes it. I'm waiting for it to happen again to check the windows event log. Been working all weekend, so I haven't had much computer time. Will tell you what event log says next time it happens.

Computer just froze, but the last event logged was "event log started". Doesn't seem to think my computer freezing is much of an event Any other suggestions?