Can't boot to Tiger anymore!!!

I thought I was clever. Before upgrading to Leopard I backed up a bootable image of 10.4.10 to a firewire drive, into its own partition. THEN I tested that I could boot from it, and it worked fine.
So I upgraded to Leopard and checked that I could still boot to Tiger from the firewire drive, and it worked fine.
So I upgraded to 10.5.1 and NOW I can't boot from the image to Tiger. It LOOKS like it's booting but I get a bunch of terminal-type error messages that go whipping by and it never does boot. I've tried it a lot of times and it just doesn't work.
Any ideas why?

jnikki
Sorry to hear this. You did a complete erase, not just an Archive/Install then? And it still didn't work!!!
Blimey! Well, at least Apple know about it now.
Just for your information - Monday or Tuesday I upgraded to 10.5.2. I tried out Font Book, found I still had this problem but was able to send that report I mentioned.
When I came home from work on Wednesday my wife informed me that a woman who claimed to be representing Apple Computers rang for me, but didn't say what it was about. My wife, of course, informed her that I wasn't available until I got home. The caller said she would ring back later.
It's now Friday evening, the caller hasn't come back (yet) and I am sooooo intrigued as to what Apple wanted to speak with me about.

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