Well, gave it a try with the voodoo kernel option checked in iAtkos 5i (there were several, I just chose the one that looked like the most general option), and it now gets a little farther in the boot process. I have to enter in verbose mode and safe mode (-v -x) and i also enter cpus=1 (unclear if this has any effect at this point) or i get a message saying to restart the computer. When i enter cpus=1 -v -x, after code scrolls for a minute, i get a message saying that the real-time clock is not properly initialized and i also see a kernel panic in the code:

(panic(CPU 0 caller 0x001ABA6F): "rtclock granularity error"@/Kernel/xnu-1228.7.58/omfmk/i386/commpage/commpage.c:424
Debugger called: <panic>

Any ideas of where I should go from here? should i try it again with one of the other voodoo options checked in iatkos or would the kernel error still be the same? Thanks for the help!