errata...

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams

DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT be an idiot (like me) and try to install using LifeHacker's guide unless you intend to either install Leopard with the build I have or... you install Snow Leopard ONLY with this build. Lifehacker's install guides, I have read, work great but ONLY with the builds stated on the site and the build I did only came with instructions for installing leopard on LifeHacker...I tried tried the "easy" snow leopard install.

so... after numerous blank screens, blinking cursors, error messages such as "Should have 2 threads, but only found 3 for Die 0" and after seeing the Apple Logo and beloved spinning beach ball to only be met with "You need to restart your computer"... I dutifully went to Insanely Mac to get schooled by a post from   "shoarthing" to someone having the same problems as me.  Found an installation guide for my motherboard at OS86 Project .  


Update... new universal install guide - could not find a good copy of Snow Leopard Universal v3.5 - so back to this install guide.


Did not work, could not get Chameleon installed on thumbdrive.  Tried via terminal and the package installer, neither worked...


Back to finding another install guide.