uman,

#1
FYI I used that tutorial to start with, but modded along the way with my own updated files etc.

#2
I have successfully installed 10.6 and got past the panics during boot.

#2B
There is a minor annoyance that I am personally willing to live with until a fix is found, and also further testing I am going to do on my own.

#2C
To get past the panics I simply set my IDE settings in my bios to compatible mode rather than enhanced. By doing this OS X doesn't see all my HDDs however its installed, booting, and the snow kitty is purring very nicely.

#3
If you want I can send you over what I have used in conjunction to the bios settings if you need it.

Happy Hunting,
TheDaemon666