Well I entered the syntax correctly in terminal and the name was changed back to mach_kernel, but when I rebooted the system still would not boot from Darwin, just hung at the boot prompt. I typed in /mach_kernel and it booted normally.

Odd I thought by simply changing back the name to it's original title the system would boot normally? Hmm...maybe someone can give me some insight as to why this did not happen.

Thanks so much Imkantus for your help again!

---

OS : Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
CPU : AMD Athlon II X4 645, 3.11 GHz
RAM : 4GB Crucial PC3/16000 DDR3
GPU : nVidia Geforce 210 1 Gig Full Hardware Acceleration
Sound : Onboard Audio Realtek ALC887
LAN: Sonnet Gigabit PCIe Ethernet Controller
Monitor : Acer S231HL 24" Wide Screen 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Htz
USB: Keyboard/Microsoft Confort Curve 2000 - Mouse/Logitech M185
Bluetooth: Apple Magic Tracpad/ DLink DBT 122 Bluetooth Dongle