Phew.

I only changed 1 thing: switched to a different block erupter.  This one has a better heat sink or is just overall faster.

I was going to try to switch to mining on my windows pc but couldn't find a cgminer executable that was compiled with the ability to run block erupters.

Just to satisfy everyone's curiosity, the cgminer running on my RPI, was compiled with the icarus support and without the specific asicminer block erupter support.  (adding the blockerupter support allows it to mine for about a minute then error out and give up on accessing the blockerupter devices again)
Then I launch the newly compiled cgminer with no command line switches and just enter the mining pool server, username, and password and let it go.