Does anyone have/want a Linux certifitation? Which one of the 3, (that I've found so far), would be the best one to try for? Not to have but to learn the most for Linux admin purposes?

You need experience and problem solving skills in business. All those certificates don't mean much. They show your record of learning, and that is. No more. To get start with, go for the RHCE.

Why would the Red Hat one be better than one of the supposed "indpendant distrubition" of Sair, or Linux Professional, or BrainBench certifications. The reason I'm asking is to learn to admin some web servers, (using SuSe 8.0), not to get certified for the sake of doing it, and taking a cert class is about the only kind of class it seems is being offered on Linux.

Just roll up your sleeves and install it on your home pc. Don't use windows for a month, do everything on Linux, read up when you don't know how to do something and after that month you'll know far more than after any certification classes. I say to read up, rather than asking on a forum such as this, because in doing so you will find the answers to many more problems than just the one you have at that moment. And it doesn't matter what you read: a book from the library, the install manual for your distro, pages from the web or even usenet. Just get stuck in and learn! At the end of the day certification is just a marketing ploy, if you want to do something you are more than capable of doing it on your own!

The only problem I have at the moment is paying a consultant to do simple tasks on a Linux web server. After being a MS systems admin for 10 to 12 hours a day the LAST thing I want to do is go home ignore the wife and kids to do even more work on a puter. Just do not have the time for trial and error learning, need a structured class. (Besides the company is willing to pay for it.) The only classes offered around here seem to be geared to some kind of cert., hence my question, which "brand" of cert would be better to go for to really learn to admin Linux. So far I've found 4 or 5 different company's or orgnizations that claim independant certification.

If you do decide to go for the RHCE be prepared for a lot of work. It's a difficult certification with a pretty high first time failure rate. It doesn't sound like you need a top tier cert for Linux anyway since you primarily deal with Windows. For your purposes CompTIA Linux + certification would be something to consider. It's an "independent" kind and won't require nearly the time and effort as RHCE.

on a side note, Linux + will give you a basic working knowledge of the linux platform but it won't give you the structured learning method you want or a lot of depth. It sounds like the LPI certification may be more appropriate. This is a pretty well recognized cert as Linux certs go. Goes into a lot more depth than Linux + and is also distro independent.