Wow! great news, it booted perfectly, and quick too! I can't thank you enough for everything you've done, you truly went out of your way to help.
My only concern now is the cpus=1 boot argument... Does this mean it will only use 1 core for mac OS X. I'm sure you could understand how that would be unfortunate. Any known fix, or is it just a limitation, because i know i didn't use it when i installed OS X? Strange...