Ok, I found that if I let them set for a minute or so on the english language selection screen, the logitech keyboard and mouse suddenly started working.
Went through the install, did updates, tried to install some kext's and now I'm dead in the water again.
Followed the directions here:
http://www.insanelymac.com/2009/02/what-is...o-install-kext/Copied them over to /System/Libraries/Extensions, chmod'd them all to 755 and then ran Disk Utilities and repaired permissions as well. Removed Extensions.mkext as it stated as well.
Went to reboot, in safe mode am getting kernel panics with your sleep enabler. Specifically - "Version mis-match between Kernel and CPU", then it does a backtrace and specifically mentions it's sk.triaxis.kext.SleepEnabler kext I added, then it just freezes and sits at system up time.
In non-safe mode boot, it's the graphics kext I added that causes a kernel panic (com.apple.ATIRadeonX2000), and sits at the system up time statement as well.
What do I do now? I was going to try and just blow out and reinstall everything, but it won't even let me do that. Back to getting ebios errors if I try booting the install disc, and I'm guessing the now formatted hard drive with the full mac Install is causing it since that's the only change from before.