Thanx Jari, for all your help (and everyone else here).
I think I figured out what happened.
It's a long story, and I imagine when you finish reading the fresh threads here, you'll read this story .
First of all, the EA's Geforce patch is either wrong...or I clicked the wrong one. (I'm positive that I click on the correct one)
When I finally Ironed out all the conflicts on this freshly built computer took a good 24 hours to do. (Via kt133a and the Raid 0 were fussy....mainly because of the Raid. The only thing I have on the IDE part is my CDRW....anyway) I installed FF8. After playing it with a 200mmx for a year, I wanted to see the movies and battles in it's full glory. Win98SE put DirectX6.1a on the system...I put in the MSI manufacture Drivers in; they are based off the 6.31 D3, it seems. I Downloaded the Geforce patch from 3dfiles. It was fine, no grid lines, at all. As a matter a fact, I still didn't know what the grid lines were, at that point. But I had another problem, the textures would disappear after awhile. I would see nothing but white and the game would bog down. So I found the Nvidia site and downloaded the latest legal drivers 6.50, but the problem was still there.
The next day, I thought maybe I got a bad download on the Geforce patch. So I went to the source of EA, and got it there. Installed it, at the same time (big mistake) I downloaded http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=16819" TARGET=_blank>DirectX7.0a from Microsoft. And installed them both. The whiteouts stopped, but the gridlines made their appearence. I played with the texture alignment all that day.
The next day Downloaded 8.0a during lunch break...left the computer and connection going while I was at work. Came back installed DX8 (didn't work) and Played with the Texture alignments, anti-aliasing, and driver versions 6.31 and 6.50 and made the post here and at Eidos Board.
Today....surfed the web came here first. Pondered about the Geforce problem, and the event's I did in the past. Decided the problem was probably related to the patch and EA. Continued Surfing, while downloading the Geforce patch from Adrenaline Vault. Couple of hours ago, installed the Vault version of the patch. Grid lines still there.....Last ditch attempt: I remembered that the MSI Drivers were loaded, so I reloaded the Nvidia's 6.5 (my video out is now disabled, but I'm don't use it anyway). And wouldn't you know it.....No more white outs, and more importantly, no more grid lines.
To sum it up: Download the patch from http://srd.yahoo.com/goo/final+fantasy+8+patch/3/*http://www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_temp.asp?patch=ff8" TARGET=_blank>Adrenaline Vault and use the 6.50 Nvidia D-3 Drivers.
I knew I would solve it eventualy....well... I was going to give up if those Drivers didn't do anything. Lucky me.
Next goal: FF7 and Geforce. LOL.