QT 7.4.1 upgrade toasted my Mini

I just (1.5 hours ago) installed 7.4.1 update on my PB G4 12 and Intel Mini, both on Leopard. No probs with the PB but the Mini just hung after I clicked restart. For over an hour I just had my desktop, no menu bar or icons, and an arrow mouse cursor. I finally figured I'd hard restart as something was amiss (the PB G4 took <5 mins for the whole process). Now I just get a dos-like screen saying "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key." On inserting a boot disk and pressing any key I get bupkis, nada, nothing.
I did get it to boot to cd holding down "c" on startup. I did not want to reinstall so I restarted with the 10.5.1 HD selected as startup. This time it did boot to the log in screen. I enter my password and get the setup utility (that thing that runs the first time you boot after install the first time), really odd! I quit the setup and it kicks me back to the login. So I log back in and I enter all the stuff in setup thinking if I jump through its hoops I'll be OK. WRONG. After I go through all the setup assistant BS I get kicked back to the login screen again. It just continues in an endless loop...
Any thoughts?

Well, I just did a complete reinstall (low-level formatted the disk too, zeroing all data out), but as soon as I installed the QT 7.4.1 update, my mini went haywire. The only reason I'm able to post this right now is because I have multiple boot partitions and was able to boot off of my old 10.4.11 one. The basic problem now is that the login window appears to be crashing non-stop on boot up. When I boot off of my Leopard DVD, I can run disk utilities, and come back with no errors (except for a bunch of SUID errors that I assume are from something Apple did on purpose).
As soon as I do yet another backup of all my data, I'm wiping and reinstalling, and this time I'm going to do an image of the disk after I get set up, but before I do any updates; this is just getting too irritating for words...

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