Restoring Leopard DVD to a disc

Question

I'm not asking for advice but leaving some of my experiences installing Leopard to the small % of people who may benefit.
I've completed around 50 Leopard installs on my Mac Pro. This is my hobby, to learn. Every install has gone fine, just the normal left over Leopard bugs which will be fixed in up coming releases. Just like Jaquar, Panther and Tiger was fixed.
This was my usual plan: take the Leopard DVD then use the restore function in Leopard's Disk Utility to copy that DVD either to a partition on an external firewire hard drive or an internal hard drive on my Mac Pro. Reason for this was to speed up the installation time.
The past few days I have been smitten with many unusual problems on my Mac Pro after installing Leopard from one of the partitions never the DVD. Its odd because many of the problems have been similar ones which I have read but could not reproduce in these discussion posts.
I've spent many hours trying to figure out the cause of my install problem. I examined my normal scenario which was : 1) always use Leopard's Disk Utility to partition or erase any of my hard drives 2) boot into a previously INSTALLED Leopard system before doing the DVD restore to hard drive.
I've gotten lazy and impatient the last few days so I by-passed my assumptions. I would boot up the Leopard DVD as normal and use Disk Utility as normal. Then because I had wiped out all my Leopard drives I had no installed Leopard system. So here comes the root cause: I did the restore to hard drive using Leopard Disk Utility as the Leopard DVD was booted up and active ie (ready to install the Leopard OS). I will not do this anymore.
Here are some of the issues when I did the restore improperly:
1) after system boot , Time Machine never comes up as normal
2) trouble dragging my firewire icons to privacy in Spotlight, can't do it
3) Login& Keychain would not give the update boot cache during restart
4) 10.5.1 update would not either, only the Quicktime 7.3 install
5) occasionally during boot cache update I'd wait an abnormally long time and the Mac Pro would not restart(stuck in an endless loop), had to do a hard restart
6) short name was being used when it should not have
I did not explore this further for other types of problems because I got sick of the ones I experienced.
Now when I do a Leopard install, I check two things before installing any other software and wasting time: 1) open Mail and on the first window is the proper name shown or is it the short name and 2) once I install iWork '08 to check Pages. Open preference and under General preferences check if the Author is the proper name or the short name. If Mail and Pages fail then I would start over. I did a few full program installs and the ownership issue does not go away.
I'm not saying Leopard is not worthy but only stressing that since Leopard can be a Universal boot installer on Intel and PPC Macs that I have had new experiences since '86 which derailed me.
One last piece of information: I finally tried the restore to firewire partition of the Leopard DVD partitioned to APM from my powerbook G4. It doess boot and install properly on PPC and Intel Macs.
Hopefully a few of you will benefit from my experience and settle into a love affair with Leopard.

Answer 1

Oh forgot two other symptoms of the no good restore install;
Mac Pro was obviously slow and sluggish and I could take the widget after activating them and drag along the tear tearing it in pieces and making the dock just disappear slowly in chunks.