First of all thanks for helping me mate, and if you have a donation link for your release let me know.

My system is a Shuttle SN68SG2. Uses an Nforce630a / GeForce 7025 video (MCP68) chipset. My other details are in the first post, like how i'm not using the onboard video due to lack of acceleration, etc.

I know it isn't a VIA chip, so thats why it seemed strange that the only difference in the bootup text of your iPC dvd, and booting from my sata drive up untill it stops is the presence of that kext. That is just my guessing at work

I know the nforce drivers included in the release were good up to MCP67, but since i'm MCP68 i feel that may be the issue. I saw a couple success stories (literally a couple) on the 10.5.2 HCL for this chipset, but none were using SATA.