No accounts being created - 10.5.4 install

I recently tried an erase and reinstall of 10.5 server on a mac pro that I have acting as a stand alone server. The first time I installed I had no issues, just borked the config of DNS and I finally got some time to redo the install completely.
Well the install process went ahead with no issues, I choose the advance setup, filled in all the required network and admin information (but skipped the registration parts), and the server rebooted leaving me at the login prompt. Everything looks good.
I had trouble logging in - mainly I couldn't at all. I thought I was going crazy and miss-spelled the admin name (long and short) when creating the account. I rebooted from the install disc and went to the change password utility to check the name of the account and to reset the password. As it turns out the account was not available in the utility (it wasn't in the dropdown list, only root was there) so I fired up terminal to discover that no accounts were created by the setup process. The rest of the OS appears to be there and fine, but nothing in /Users.
I tried running dscl from the terminal app on the install disc, but it's not there!
*Any suggestions? Has anyone experience this before?* I tried searching for a couple hours and couldn't find an similar situations. I am currently running the install again and will choose standard instead of the advanced setup option (the VERY first install that I borked the settings on was done as standard and it worked fine...)
Thanks!

As expected Standard worked fine. Not sure what's up with the advance setup not actually setting anything up though.

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    You can try it, you've got the 10.6 clone to option boot off of and restore from.
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    This will ensure the best possible performance possible with the least trouble as everything is wiped and installed fresh. Only problem being your files it there is something wrong with them, which is easy to remedy to the cause as it's the only thing not pristine.
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    Has anyone done this? Again, I'm concerned that Lion will do something goofy and leave some kind of footprint behind, like maybe messing with firmware; cloning my SL installation back to my internal HD would not reverse a firmware change.
    Firmware is hardware specific not OS specific, of course it's possible a old version of a OS won't work with newer firmware, like 10.5 for instance perhaps because Apple has dropped all work on PPC code.
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    Yes, I've searched and read a number of responses, but I'm hoping much of the "discovery" phase is over, and there are some "solid"/refined answers by now. My bottom line is to be able to play with Lion without having to depend on it.
    Cloning only clones the Lion OS X Partition, not the Lion Recovery Partition.
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