After downloading imgburn and burning the snowosx universal 3.5 at 4x write speed, still didnt make a difference. My system kept rebooting after loading system/libraries. It appears that I may be running out of distros. The only distro which boots and gets me to the language selection screen is ideneb 10.5.7, however, as i mention before, my mouse and keyboard freeze. I will try to find a fix for that and/or wait for ideneb to release their snow leopard distro.

I know Apple uses sata drives, on all of their computers, and I have also heard that you have a better chance of installing hackintosh if you have an IDE drive, so my question is this really true? I do remember than when I was able to install ideneb 10.5.5 on my amd dual core, I had and IDE dvd drive. Right now, my system has a sata drive. Any opinions/suggestions?

I think I'm making progress. I found a usb keyboard/mouse and booted off with ideneb 10.5.8 lite edition, changed bios to "ahci", use the following flgas busratio=20; cpus=1 and it worked. I got as far as creating partitions on the my free space but some reason I couldnt. Also, I want to research more as to what I need to do to be able to boot mac using grub, before going through with the installation. anyone has any suggestions as to what entries need to be added to grub.conf? thanks in advance.

any suggestions? After firing disk utility in order to create the partition where leopard will be installed, I get to the part where you have to pick your partition scheme. You can pick anywhere from one partition all the way to 16+ partitions, you can also keep your current set up. In my case, I'm planning on installing Leopard in an disk drive where I already have windows 7, so there are already 2 parititions. I have a little over 630GB of empty space which is where I want to create the partition for leopard but is "grayed" out and I cant do anything with it. when i click on the empty space, the little "+" sign at the bottom which would normally allow you to create a new partition wont let me. Any advise?