"Start Idle Timer Stopped" How to boot Mac Mini?

I was following Apple's procedure to setup Boot Camp - I had partitioned the drive on my Mac Mini, installed Mac OS X 10.4 and was setting about the upgrade it to Leopard, when it crashed with the prompt:
localhost:/root# CSRHIDTransitionDriver::stop
IOBluetoothHCIController::Start Idle Timer Stopped
No mater if I started by resetting the parameter RAM, Safe boot (Shift Key), Option key, or from the System DVD (C Key), it came up withe the same message. It is a command prompt - and I can do a "reboot" command (with the same result). I did a "/sbin/fsk -fy" and the disk checked out okay.
Any ideas on what I might do to get this thing going again? How can I get it to actually boot, either from the hard drive or the system DVD?

I also reset the System Management Controller:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303446
...and tried booting diagnostics (D Key), both also to no avail.

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