So there were in fact Monkeys in the system.
The corruption didn't stop. Simply cp'ing a file would cause both the destination and source file to have different checksums. I memtest86'd the memory, ran format->analyze on the hd, and pulled my hair out -- to no avail.
However I noticed that corruption occurred when multiple disk accesses were taking place -- DMA seemed to be a likely cause.
# eeprom ata-dma-enabled=0
seemed to fix the problem at the cost of system speed.
It seems that Solaris has issues with IWill KK266's on board IDE controller. Restoring the BIOS to failsafe defaults seems to have had the desired effect. I suppose this is likely the cause of my original problem with boot corruption.
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