10.5 Install Brings the Blue Screen of Death

Hi,
I could really use some help. I just tried to upgrade from 10.4.11 to 10.5. I'm on a power pc mac (12" G4) with 1.67 GHz. Here's a rundown of what I've done so far.
1. Upgraded from 10.5 disc - went all the way through, but upon restart, i got the blue screen of death. I could see and move the cursor but nothing else.
2. Manually shut down. Restarted with installation disc and ran disk utility - no disk errors or permissions errors.
3. Restarted again with internal drive as startup disk. Again, blue screen of death.
4. Tried to reset pram (reset-nvram and reset-all). Again, blue screen of death.
5. Went back to install disc and re-installed 10.5. Again, went through successfully. Upon restart, yet again the blue screen of death. This time, the cursor is the colored spinning wheel. I've let it go overnight in case in needed a little time and it's still there.
PLEASE HELP! I've backed up everything, but there are a handful of files I neglected to backup. Not life-changing, but would be good to salvage.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.
J-

I did, but didn't find this until today.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857
I had already given up on a straight upgrade and instead went for the archive and install option which has worked without a hitch. All is well. Has even resolved my synching woes with my treo. Note that you should make sure you have enough drive space since I'm now down to a paltry 3GB when I once had about 12GB.

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