Hi all,
It's been a long road to Hackintosh-ness and my brain hurts.
Just wonder if I can pick someone else's brain?

MOBO: P5K-E Wifi/AP
CPU: Q6600
GFX: GeForce 9800 GT 512
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800

DRIVES:
SATA: 2 x 500GB HHD
1 x DVD

IDE/PATA: 1 x DVD
1 x HHD

I had a fully functional 10.5.6 (updated to 10.5.7) retail install which utilised 64 bit drivers to enable both ACHI on SATA drives and J-Micron for IDE / PATA Drives (64 bit needed because of 4GB RAM?)

After upgrading to 10.5.8 and getting "Waiting for root device" error, I got rid of the 64 bit kexts (LegacyAppleAHCI, LegacyIOAHCIBlockStorage and JMicronATA 64 bit) and switched everything back to IDE in the bios to get it to boot again.
My system is functional - but dodgy under 10.5.8

I'm now fully confused as to what I would have to do to make my system "SL-ready" and to have the same functionality I had with my 10.5.7 install.

My /S/L/E folder is full of crap - hard to track down and work out what is needed and what should go.

Ideally, I would like to switch over to Chameleon V2 boot loader on EFI partition and utilise /Extra , com.apple.Boot.plist and dsdt patching this time around.

I would basically be starting from scratch with a boot 132 leo 10.5.6 retail install.
Hope my query is clear?
I threw just up in my mouth trying to think ... and be more concise.
Regards
Fish