Gray screen of death after upgrade

I think I did everything right; backed up hard drive, then zeroed it out, installed Leopard, then used Migration assistant to bring in my settings and programs from the backed up drive.
Now, all I get is the opening chime, gray apple, and after about 2 minutes it stops loading and freezes.
I've run disk warrior and it says everything is ok.. and I can get the hard drive to come up on a firewire drive on another machine. Should this not have worked?? and what did I leave out or do wrong?

Hi John,
Can you boot from your install disk and check the hard drive for errors?
Insert the installer disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu (Panther and earlier) or Utilities menu (Tiger and later) and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel. It should say: Verified)
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
When you are finished with DU, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Manager.
Select your start up disk and click Restart
If you cannot boot from your install disk, try booting in Safe Mode
Carolyn

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