Pismo won't boot into Os 9.

Hello,
Recently I dusted off my Pismo to use today while my wife used the MacBook Pro. Everything was working fine on it OS X was running smoothly and such. I needed to use an application in OS 9 and was forced to boot into 0S 9 (it's not yet updated to 9.2.2). Anyways, after telling the Pismo to use the OS 9 System folder as the start up disk the computer refuses to boot past the 'happy mac' screen.
I've tried everything, Zapping PRAM, Going into OPen firmware and reseting the NVRAM and tried to boot using the boot cd:9,\System\Library\CoreServices\BootX command (all I got in return with the command was that the path couldn't be found). I even tried holding CMD-X (and just X). I've even removed all 3rd party hardware and memory from the machine. However NOTHING helps, all the computer does is boots to the Happy Mac screen and waits... waits for what I don't know!
I'd really be happy if I can just reboot into Os X.
Any clues!
Thanks!

I have tried holding Shift to get into Safe Mode. It does the same thing. When I turn the machine on, it chimes and then the screen flickers. Once I beleive for the OS X Boot screen and then it goes right to the grey screen for Os 9 where the devilsh happy mac taunts me. I can do almost all commands on boot Open Firmware, PRAM Zap, and Firewire Target Disk Mode. However, Safemode and holding X(CMD-X) to boot into Os X does not. I'm thinking I'm just out of luck with this machien and will be forced to reformat it when I get home.

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