Tiger doesn't see hard drive

Good morning guys,
I am looking for some assistance debugging an issue where my powerbook will not see the hard drive. I was given this powerbook to work on (no previous history of ever working before). When I got it it would give me the grey screen and the spinning circle for a few seconds then automatically shut down. The first thing I did was to confirm my suspicions (a bad drive) so I used an external firewire drive and managed to install the OS without any issues. Then once in OS X I tried to repair/format the internal drive without any luck. It would just hang forever. So I decided I need to try a new drive. Now, before I go any further I need to point out that when I'd hold the 'option' key down upon boot up it would give me the option to boot from either drive (internal and firewire), in other words OS X would still 'see' the internal drive as being available to bootstrap.
In order to replace the new drive I followed the instructions in this YouTube video from OWC which as you could see it's pretty straight-forward. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBDHyEQ1bQQ
Two items to note: I've tried two new HDs (not new but known to be working), one of them being the one I used to install the OS externally via FW. In fact this one I didn't even format it, I just threw it in as the replacement internal drive. So here are the results: OS X now gives me the folder/flashing ? when I boot. But the most disturbing thing to me is that when I boot off of the DVD to install the OS the HD is not listed at all in the Disk Utility. Running *diskutil info* from the Terminal also shows no drive. In addition to this when I boot holding down the option key the internal drive is no longer showing up either (not even when I have gone back to using the *original drive*!). I have re-watched the video to make sure I didn't miss anything (like a missing ribbon cable being loose etc. and have also tried another HD that I formated from another powerbook via the FW and still the same result.
So here are my questions:
- Why is it that multiple HDs are not showing up as I hold down the Option key when prior to the failed HD replacement that used to be the case?
- OpenFirware as far as I can tell is seeing the drive when I run '0 > devalias hd /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0 ok' . Is this enough to conclude the drive is installed correctly?
- I took an original OS X DVD that came with my other 15" PB and used it to run the Apple Hardware Test on this problematic PB and even the extensive mode test came back fine. Mass Storage passed with no problems.
Well I hope you all have some ideas coz I am willing to try them.
Oh BTW, I have ran a PRAM and PMU resets just in case also.
Sorry for the long email...
Thanks in advance to any brave souls to jump on this one
-abe

As I'm at work, I don't recall there being an apple menu. Just a language selection, then and agreement page and then it looks for the hard drive. Do I have to hold down a certain key to access the apple menu?

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