Chad,
Curious with the declining sets what do your warms up's look like?
One of your recent heavy works out on squat you went.
325x2:
310x5:
295x5:
Working with increasing sets if my last set was going to be 325x2 (assuming of course I could move that kind of weight ) my warmup might be
1x5 124
1x5 155
1x3 190
Intuitively that looks a bit light to be jumping in with a first set of 325 so how do you start high without killing yourself?