UNRESPONSIVE NVidia 6800 card and Powermac G5 Dual 2.5 (2004)

I just purchased a NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra card for my 2.5 dual G5 (which is a model from 2004). I need the card b/c I've been doing a lot of work in Motion. I bought the card on EBAY and it came in a beautiful Apple box -- barely used and verified to be working.
I installed it and it didn't work, even though my G5 meets all the specs. The card is properly installed (its fan is whirring up a storm), but my 2 Samsung monitors don't activate. (Everything of course works fine with my standard-issue Radeon 9600). I'm on 10.410
A few notes:
-An AppleCare specialist claimed that my G5 is too old for this card -- even though the card says it works with even First Gen G5's. (I believe mine is 2nd Gen)
-When I try starting up with the Nvidia, I hear a high-pitch sound -- almost like speaker feedback. I saw this on someone else's post with another graphic card issue
-The Graphic Card Installer CD's would not install drivers on my system. Said something about my harrdrive not accepting these drivers
-Another post mentioned how a Logitech wireless keyboard driver can mess up graphic extensions -- which makes no sense to me (I am using a Logitech wireless keyboard.
Any thoughts out there. MUCH MUCH appreciated.

I actually did what Roland suggested and got mine to work. The only problem has been when I run World of Warcraft I now get a Kernel Panic. I have been using the computer without updating anything in osx, currently running osx 10.4.0
I am going to do the cumulative update to see if it behaves better. Is there anyway I can find out if the card is running in AGP x8? This is the card info I get on the system profiler:
Chipset Model: GeForce 6800 GT
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0045
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 2121m
This card is different. It says its a 6800GT DDL, but its not the original Åpple made one, its one that says GeForece XFS on the fan...
What do you guys think?
Gilbert

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