AMD Phenom Installation advice required

[KusariNinja]

Hiya Guys

Firstly I would like to say well done on all the amazing wealth of info you provide in this forum.

I have an AMD System which is currently running Vista Ultimate x64. This is installed on a sata drive but will be disconnected whilst setting up osx86 on a ide device which will later be put in an external caddy so i can plug it in as and when i need to play around with it.

I currently have 3 different distros, ideneb 1.3 10.5.5 (could not install always had root drive wait error), ipc 10.5.6 beta (not tried yet) and lawlessppc 10.5.4 (had success up to a point, was unable to get decent graphics resolution, no audio, no network, tried to update to 10.5.5 with a patched installer so i could try out some nvidia graphics drivers but this killed the installation.)

i have spent best part of 20 odd hours trying various things before asking for help as I usually like to solve problems myself but alas i am a bit beat on this one lol.

My main system specs are in my signature, I would like to know what would be the best distribution to use, how to update correctly to 10.5.5/6 (if needed) and get working graphics on 9500GT, not overly concerned with getting both cards working together but would be a bonus.

IDE HD is on master channel, DVDROM drive is on slave channel, sata disconnected. In my bios there are raid options but no ahci or whatever it's called though I would assume as i am not installing on sata that these settings are irrelevant?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated

Kindest Regards

KusariNinja