Booting from an Iomega 500GB UltraMax  Hard Drive

Are these suppose to be Leopard bootable?

I've never used SuperDuper, I know they had to update it to get it work with Leopard. Do you have the latest version?
If you have some time, you might try using the Disk Utility Restore function to make a clone onto one of the partitions and see if that boots better. If so, there might still be some sort of problem with SuperDuper and Leopard.
As for whether there are too many bootable clones on the drive: don't know, my clones have always been to drives with one, two or occasionally three partitions. Recently had trouble with a 2 partition drive that had one partition for a clone of my G4 tower, and the second for my iBook. The iBook just did not want to use its own clone, kept defaulting to the G4 tower's clone (and it would actually boot from it too). The only way I could get it to boot from its own clone was to select it in System Prefs-Startup, then reboot.
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