I wasn't using the Power4Gear Hybrid software and spent some time trying to figure out what was causing the webcam to re-enable after reboot. Before I was lead to the Power4Gear Hybrid software I did a bunch of things through the Windows 7 control panel and I may have messed with some other ASUS software as well but don't recall what I did that may have caused the following issue.
I used to be able to disable the touchpad using fn+f9 and after reboot it would still be disabled. The opposite is true now.
What is causing the touchpad to become re-enabled after reboot?