I'm back at it again this morning.
finally got one machine working...kinda...at least boting.

I think there are a lot of great things about Leopard, and you can find them all over the web. I've started a list of ceveats (that anyone is welcome to add to or rebuff). Perhaps I should have started a thread here, I'm not trying to be self serving, but I am working with multiple communities...

My findings so far
http://tinyurl.com/2oxbw4