I changed all the 2 pixal settings to 4 pixals and dialed down the lighting quality to "good" and fired it off again.  It is 4 AM in the morning here and the render is still going.  It appears to be farther along than before.  If this does not finish, I will try implementing the latest suggestions.

I do have a black band showing up across the render.  I think it is coming from the realistic sky. This is very annoying.

I am running C7P on Windows7-64.  The memory monitor is indicating that I am only using about 7G of memory, leaving about 9G free.  I ran memory checks on the memory when  installed the last set of memory but I have not checked it again recently.  I will try running it again after the render completes to make sure it is not a hardware issue.

Thanks for all the help.  I will post it when compete.