Quick update on this. My intel iMac came this week and of course will not boot off a 3.8 cd as it uses EFI instead of BIOS.
There's currently a $10,000 bounty for getting XP to boot: http://windowsxp.onmac.net There's also a FAQ tracking some of what's been tried, including some having "bricked" their machines and how to fix it: http://appleintelfaq.com/ There are also links to outputs from various commands like the OS X dmesg (http://appleintelfaq.com/imac/dmesg.html). I'm flat out in the day job at the moment but the machine is sitting here serving as a jukebox at the moment so if anyone has ideas on things to try that won't take too much time then fire away... -N
