Tried upgrading and failed, installed fresh and failed

Well, not a very good start.
I first tried upgrading Tiger to Leopard and got stuck in blue screen after the final reboot. I waited for an hour and nothing happened, no hard disk activity. Then I tried to boot in verbose mode and resolved nothing. Then I booted in safe mode and moved every non-apple kernel extension elsewhere from System/Library/Extensions. No results.
Then I formatted the whole hard disk and installed fresh Leopard. Now, after two hours it's in the personal data entry -phase, but macbook pro's -internal keyboard doesn't work-.
This sure is an adventure. Reminds me of installing Windows, in a way.

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