Leopard Upgrade/Install Fails and Fails Miserably

Normally, I love my Mac. It's a Dual G5 PowerMac. I've owned Macs forever. Usually, I don't have any problems. Until now.
Here's my story:
My HD failed the Sat. before Xmas. I had my computer backuped to an external firewire drive, so I wasn't too worried. I got two SATA drives and replaced my single internal drive with a RAID 1 pair. Autobackup now. Simple. I restored the backup to the mac and everything was running smoothly under Tiger.
I got the Leopard Upgrade for Xmas and went to install in on New Year's day. My computer still isn't working.
I booted it up from the DVD and let it run through the DVD check. Everything was fine. I went in and, even though I knew better, I just told the installer to upgrade the current OS folder. THat got almost all the way through when I got a rather harsh, "THERE WAS SOME ERROR INSTALLING ESPON STUFF. INSTALLATION FAILED." warning. What's odd is that I don't have an Epson printer.
I rebooted and tried a clean install, copying over my directory and network settings. Well, that sort of worked. I got into the desktop, but my folder/network stuff hadn't copied, and many control panels would crash the "system settings" program.
I gave up, rebooted back into Tiger from my external HD, and restored the RAID pair back to Tiger. I then tried installing Leopard again, a clean install this time. Again, I got to the "Epson" error and had to bail.
I then restored and tried again.
It got to about "9 minutes reamining" and sat there for several hours before I gave up and reimaged the HD. Again.
That was this AM. I tried to install Leopard straight away with a clean install, pulling over my folders/network stuff. When I left for work, it was sitting at "14 minutes remaining..." When I got home, it's sitting at, "14 Minutes remaining..."
I'm seriously at my wit's end here, and I'm ready to throw the install DVD at a Genius at the Genius Bar...
What's going on and why won't Leopard install correctly on my machine?
Thanks!

I've read many reports that say there are problems with Leopard installing to a raid that was created with older versions of Disk Utility.
"The only workaround was to do a fresh install of Leopard on my external FireWire HD, transfer all data using the Migration Assistant, erase the RAID and recreate it with the latest Apple RAID software, install Leopard on the new RAID, and finally transfer the data from the FireWire HD with the Migration Assistant. This took a lot of time, but it worked and Leopard is running fine on my RAID, and the machine looks as if I did a straight upgrade."
I busted my raid apart when installing Leopard Server because of all the problems I had been reading about. It hadn't occurred to me that the raid should have to be set up with the Leopard DVD...

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