Grey apple with spinning wheel... then black screen!

I just got done building up a G4 dual 450. I added a superdrive, second 120GB HDD and 1.5 GB of pc133 ram. It also has a 20 GB HDD that has Tiger installed on it and nothing else.
When I bought this machine it booted up fine. Now I have added these other pieces and it boots up to the grey apple with the spinning wheel, then goes to a black screen (I can still hear the HDD spinning up from time to time), at which time I do my Mr. Bill impression.
I have tried PMU reset, nvram reset, and zapped the pram. FSCK says the volume appears to be fine. When I boot into startup mode it recognizes the 20GB HDD with the X on it, as well as the Tiger install disk in the superdrive. When I go to boot from the DVD it sits on the grey screen with the twirling wheel forever.
I pulled the RAM from another machine in which it worked fine. I have removed the airport and disconnected the second, unformatted HDD. I am not sure what else to try! Does anyone have any other ideas I can try?

Hi, ijwebb!
Sounds like a drive jumper setting conflict...
I'd recheck the hard drive jumper settings to insure that one drive is properly set to master and the other to slave.
The optical drive pins normally are set to master. I'd check this as well.
If you need help in confirming the settings, let us know what the hard drive brands are and one of the Members can advise the correct settings to use.
Gary

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