I am able to get into the installation; however, my hard drive does not appear as a drive to install to. I looked in disk utility and it only shows my usb drive.

I was able to get this far using the new legacy empire efi with the following string..
-v -f -pci1 busratio=17 cpus=2

hard drive is SATA with 3 partitions. one of which is RAW and waiting for OS X.

thanks!

Specs
HP Pavillion a1106n
AMD 64 x2 dual core 4400+ 2.3GHZ
ASUS M2N68-LA
PCI Gforce 8600 GTS
3gig Memory