http://martin77s.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/evtlogparser/ - someone wrote an overlay for logparser
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=18465 – EventCombMT is what I used to use.
http://www.eventid.net/ - this is good if trying to find esoteric event codes
Thanks Charles!