Hey Ian, no prob bud. I'll send you a bunch of different benches at insanelymac after I am finished doing some tests today - don't want to mix too much Intel talk over here, hehe. I'll be trying out AHCI vs IDE, time machine tests, may possibly swap in the 8800GT, and also might try out the 9.2.2 hacked kernel. At the moment, I am using the retail 9.2.2 kernel and it works really well! I get shutdown/restart, but I haven't tried sleep yet. See you over at insanelymac.

EDIT: Wow! Sleep works, and wake works with power button-tap!! So I have a 100% working retail/vanilla system.