I was able to resolve the issue (it seems) by changing the power management settings on the Classmate as well as going into its BIOS and turning off SpeedStep and C-State or something like that (they just seem to reduce CPU power to lengthen battery life). We have a UPS to power the Classmate so battery life still shouldn't be an issue
. And if it comes down to it, we have an inverter that works fine as well. I've gone over my code several times and had the other programmers on the team - although I'm the only one who wrote the robot code, we have others who are capable but were too busy with building the rest of the robot - look over it for errors and possible resource reduction possibilities and they couldn't come up with anything either.