I knew the AMD processor got hot...  I've even seen a T-Bird 1.33 go up in smoke within about 3 seconds, but we wont get into that(NO, that was NOT my first trial to build a computer!  It was even my processor)
Well, I'm not too concered now that it seems to be working alright.  Also(I need to double check this is enabled) my mb has a feature that will cut the power if the processor fan is not detected.  I know it works because once when I was first hooking it up, I'd cut it on, and just as POST appeard, it would cut off.  Took me a second, then I realized my processor fan was connected to my PS connector  :-[