How to use the "Bootstrap.dat" file with bitcoin-qt?
Okay, it appears after much trial and error, I figured out that you put the bootstrap.dat file in the AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin or ~/.bitcoin folder. You can leave everything else in that folder untouched, just add the bootstrap.dat file in the Bitcoin folder.

I left bootstrap.dat in there, and finally Bitcoin-QT found it, and on the bottom it states "Importing blocks from disk..." I'm currently at 80 weeks behind on the update, compared to 240+.

I was reading crap about using the -loadblock command and extracting/unzipping the .dat file.... well this wasn't needed.  At least it isn't needed on the current version of QT, which I believe is .8.0.5