The blinking dash in the upper left corner (after reinstalling to the same hard drive) usually means that the bootloader isn't marking the disk to allow it to be booted.

This is separate from your other problem which I think you could boot up using single user mode (-s) and then after the booting is done, enter the following code:
This will cause your system to recreate the Preferences folder upon rebooting and should give you back the system (except that you'll need to redo some of your Preferences in the System Preferences)

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It doesn't allow me to enter text. After I boot - s it gets stuck at :/root# AppleintelCPUPowerManagement : intialization complete, I haven't waited more than 3minutes for it to continue, if it's supposed to take longer than that let me know. I'll send the pictures now (to the same photobucket link from before). It also has some option states above it. Which ends up stuck at kernel overflows available space. The hd had 120 or so gb last I used it.
I tried to put the code as is above. Exactly as typed, using the space bar to get to the next line... Kernel overflows available space,

Could it be possible to put this hitachi hd into an enclosure and connect it via USB to a mac and run disk utility on it, an enclosure would be cheap... And I could just use a mac on display somewhere. A computer shop I call said they'd run a diagnostic on it for $70, even after mentioning it was a hackintosh he said bring it in. I'm thinking that maybe what they'd do for $70, which I could do for cost of enclosure.

Running disk utility on this hdd is unlikely to solve anything.

Do yourself a favor, grab the normal iso available at

http://partedmagic.com/

burn it to a cd then boot from it.

Now using the file manager ( or terminal ), mount the drive/partition containing your Leopard install and after making a backup/archive of your "Extensions" folder, delete AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext also delete any caches and .mkext, reboot and see what happens.
Do you get the same errors?

Would it be the same to put this on either a 4 or 16gb USB drive, I returned the superdrive I bought for the install.
-please note that this was to be my primary computer, itunes/iPhoto/pages & Internet use. My prehistoric hp pavillion ze4200 is all I have access to now, other than the few trips to the apple store to sneak disk utility/formatting & downloading the dellminiboot. This has basically screwed my intentions over... To have an inexpensive portable device for light work.

Not sure what you mean?

If the question is whether you can run Parted Magic from a USB drive instead of a CD, then the answer is yes, as long as the machine you intend to use it on can boot from usb devices.

You can find a "usb" version in the downloads.

Though I've never used it so can't be of much help there, but their website or the download itself should have any info you might need.

I'm trying to get around the legality of the hackintosh and taking it to a shop. My personal resources aren't sufficient enough it seems.
Can I:
-Install mac os onto this laptop's hd from it being in an external enclosure. then I run the dell efi on it as well, then simply install it back into the s10?
-do a reinstall from a completely wiped hd in the s10
I'm trying to know the ins and outs of this from a real perspective not just a I followed a how to, not knowing how it worked. I'm taking this failure quite personally, when one doesn't know why one failed... Upsetting.
As far as the dellminiboot not working... Why isn't it? It should be able to boot straight from the USB without a hd init & it doesnt. It would be as simple as put a blank hd in run dellminiboot, reinstall the mac DVD... Fixed right? I'm assuming a prob would be the 1st of running the syslinux download, can this be installed onto a blank hd without an os

Thanks for all the input. I believe this fight is over, the brilliant tech guy... Came up with the plan of simple erasing the hd, calling lenovo for the install disks, reinstall from a USB cd rom drive. Lenovo doesn't give install disks for this, and I have now picked up my erased hd from the shop. Supposedly I could send it to lenovo and they'd install the os with the original hd in, but I bought this s10 with an hd upgrade, don't have the original.
- my only saving grace is to get the hd into an enclosure, get syslinux to run on it so the dellminiboot can let me re install the os

os x is currently installing, 9 minutes left. I had to dig deep in the common sense bin to get syslinux on my dellminiboot USB. For the sake of anyone else whom may come across this prob
- the directions are to unzip syslinux-3.63 to c:
- then cmd prompt
- cd c:\syslinux-3.63\win32
-syslinux.exe -ma (ur USB letter)
None of that work properly for me so I
-so unzipped it to desk top
-dragged the file into the cmd prompt, enter
-dragged the next need file into cmd prompt and added to that Line -ma (USB letter)
For some reason my hp didn't find the file by ask with text but dragging them in did, weird, even typing them exactly as it wouldve appeared had I dragged them in it wouldn't work.
2 minutes left until I've osx running again, my next concern is should I use the last tinemachine back up I did which has all my stuff... Afraid of a re occurance of whatever just happened

Took the hd out, erased it. Reinstalled 10.5.6, this install wasn't at smooth as the 1st, the beginning after the disk utility it actually gave an error that osx couldn't install, restart. When I did it came up as the mulit language welcome greeting. Everything but the battery meter is working, which didn't happen on the 1st install. Battery meter is alway at 0% or not charging, the time left is correct but the battery display is dead red