Okay so an update.
I've broken down initrd-android and removed a whole bunch of **** for testing purposes. It boots to the A N D R O I D _ screen like the base image does now.
This leads me to believe that it has been a memory issue of trying to load the initrd into RAM. While the archive Gzipped is only 22MB, extracted it is over 40. Way too much for our devices to handle.
What I'm working on now is building a new kernel that does not have ANY input devices selected to see if it is the Vogue's input information that is crashing the boot sequence. If it is, I may be able to at least get Android booting but obviously we won't be able to do anything with it. Baby steps...