Difficulty installing Snow Leopard dmg from Firewire to the 13" 2.66 GHZ

We have been using a Firewire (using 400=>800 cable) .dmg for Snow Leopard Install DVD, and it works flawlessly for just about any Intel mac machine, except the 2.66GHZ 13" MBP.
Is there some kind of conflict? When option-booting to the Firewire Snow Leopard installer, the screen scrolls down with a black, translucent error message...saying something like "hold down your power button to reboot".
Installing from disk every time is just sooo slow and painful. Can you hook a brother up??

Installing off of a DVD is no problem. It's just super tedious and takes a looong time compared to installing from a Firewire drive. We build a lot of macs every day, and sadly have not yet set up a centralized imaging system like Casper or the tools offered in OS X Server.
Here's how we do it:
Format an external 2.5" or 3.5" hard drive with a few partitions (Mac OS Extended). Make sure one of the partitions is at least 15GB.
Next, create an image (dmg) of a Snow Leopard Install DVD.
Using Disk Utility, restore the Snow Leopard dmg to the 15GB partition on the hard drive.
Connect the hard drive with a firewire (or USB) enclosure.
We have a Firewire 400 to 800 cable, which lets us connect the enclosure to the 13" 2.66 macbook pro.
Boot up the mac, with the option key held down. You should then be presented with an option to boot from the Snow Leopard image you've restored to the 15 GB partition.
Then, if it successfully boots from that image, you'll see the ever familiar setup process. And it's fast.
That's it! This method works like a charm for virtually any Intel mac. Except the **** 13" 2.66 model.

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