ok I have been searching online as to what my problem could be, I too thought it was the head gasket. But to my knowledge and to other people who I have asked if it was the head gasket, their answer was, only if you see white smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe. smell rotten eggs ( coolant leaking into the engine). so I know its not that. A little more on that in later as to why its not that. I have replaced hoses on my car, 4 of them. 2 being the heater hoses behind the engine between the block and heater in the car. I replace the lower hose to the radiator and its bypass hose. the one that really showed the difference maker was when I replaced the lower hose to the radiator, it had build up of gunk on the male connector. I had chipped it off and used a wire brush to clean it very good. After that my car has not over heated but has been losing coolant. I then replaced the heater hoses because those as well as the bypass and lower hose for the radiator were wet and moist. They were not dry as the others were. I replaced the 2 heater hoses and everything worked out just right, car sat at mid temp and only went up a little. I then noticed a smell of boiling water (I didn't put coolant back in till I made sure the leak was fix, so I put water in) and looked around and found a bolt under the throttle trigger. I had puddles of coolant on my engine near the throttle trigger and just didn't know where it was coming from, but now that I found the source. This should be an easy fix. I have had this car since it had 20k miles on it and kept it in good shape, do my own repairs that I know of, give it an oil change when needed, do my own maintenance on the car that I can do without the mechanic. But overall I have not had any issues with the car. Makes me wonder if I was lucky or if other people who say they do take care of their car really don't.

Update from Jan 13, 2012: update on this this issue.....that bolt was just lose, when I purchased the car from the dealership they didn't tighten the bolt got to love dealerships. now to the real meat of the problem, so I took apart my engine (took me 3 days to put it back together but got it done.) had bought the head gasket seal set, I said screw it going to get it done. when I took off the cylinder heads and look at all the gaskets not one was bad. said to my self ok well I'll replace them all one by one, well my father in-law told me well how does your cylinder heads look, I said well they look used. he laughed and said look for a machine shop and have them resurfaced, I said ok. didnt' know what that ment so I looked it up and found a place. they charged me 200 bucks to resurface both cylinder heads and did a valve job and installed the new gaskets as well. when I picked up the cylinder heads they looked brand spanking new, the guy also told me that one of my cylinder head had a bad leak hence my issue I had in the first place. well I got everything back together and now my car runs excellent and no issues at all, if you come to this issue it could be that the cylinder block is leaking.

I went to the dealer to get my oil changed because I was taking a trip. I was then told that I had a leak and my intake gasket needed to be replaced. At this time I was unaware of any problem. After getting my car back and returning from my four hour trip (2 hours each way), the next day my coolant light came on. I put more dex-coolant fluid in and I thought that the problem was fixed, but the next day when I started the car the coolant light came on. I thought the light was a mistake because I know I put coolant in the container. So, I when on my planned trip that was an hour each way and on my way back my car over heated ten minutes into the ride, and the car started to decelerate. I put more coolant in, let the car sit for ten minutes to cool off a little. I then took the top off of the container that held the coolant. The fluid bubbled and these rusted particles floated to the top. I was able to make it home without the car over heating again, but that was a scary ordeal to go through especially when you have kids in the car. So, back to the dealer for me!!