Well I got Pirate EFI to work or whatever you linked me to and it still doesn't see any hard drives. I guess this retail cd doesn't like my western digital drives... I'm going to try my hitatchi external hd and see if it likes that. I don't want to install on that though because it's slow.

It looks like a bios setting.
I would try different settings because i can´t imagine that the problem is the harddrive.
What was the setting you enabled yesterday? I would begin with that.

Finally got it working by setting sata mode to ide. Installs fine and everything now I'm just trying to get the graphics card to work correctly. It first started with that crappy resolution then I downloaded a kext and it fixed the resolution but now the screen goes blank every 3 seconds and stays that way for 3 seconds. it's so annoying idk what to do.

I still can't get the resolution right.

UPDATE: I was able to get 1600x1200 but not the full HD...