Update nightmare and it continues....

Events :
1. received my SL update dvd this past friday. i installed it the same evening.
installation went well and my bootcamp partition was still working. all is good.
2. day two, i switch to xp for some gaming and when i switch back to OS X (SL), the start up of SL is terribly slow. Even macmini shows that Apple sign boot logo for about 10min before allowing OS X to continue with the boot.
3. I switch back to xp and decide to install bootcamp 3 from the xp partition. Installation successful and i see OS X partition.
4. i boot onto OS X, and it's just as slow if not worst.
5. when I finally reach the OS X finder desktop (some 20 later) I no longer see the bootcamp parition in system preferences - Start up.
6. when i try to run boot camp assistant, I get a message saying - "Boot Camp Assistant Cannot be used - You must update your computer's Boot ROM firmware before using this setup assistant"
I realized something went wrong somewhere but not sure where. so I decided to re-do everything since I got TM backups.
I tried 6x installing SL from an update dvd. they all failed at different stages. 1. 45% of install. 2. froze and required hard restart. 3. at 70% of install. 4. at 85% of install. 5. Froze again, 6. At 99.9% less than a minute remained of install.
all the above were clean from scratch installs, partition removed and disk reformatted onto one partition only.
I decide then to install from 10.5.6 (dvd provided with my macmini (early 2009).
A. the installation went well until just a few second before the end and poff, a message saying that this OS cannot be installed on this mac appears. It shutdown on its own and restarted. after a pause of nearly 10min, the install start up animation begins and i'm driving through to OS installation process.
B. install over, i apply 10.5.8. after a painful 45min the macmini restarts and takes a while before the screen turn black and that's how far it goes now.
I don't know what snow leopard did to my macmini but I can assure you all that my hardware functioned wonderfully under leopard ever since i got it.
I don't understand what has changed to cause it to function like a chronically sick piece of hardware. As a result, i'm without my mac and I just don't know what to do. is there a way to reset the macmini to its default firmware (before the recent firmware that apple made available for mini's at least)
should I call apple care and report hardware failure ?

Thanks Scott, I followed your suggestion and proceeded with SL directly.
The installation process took about 30min and just when it reached nearly the end an error occurred and the message "This OS cannot be installed in this machine" happened again.
The machine restarted and the apple logo shows for over 10min (10min too long) before hearing some activity in the HD, then screen changes from apple logo to blue before switching to a darker gray, then it's dark... and suddenly the welcome generic for OS X installation begins without the sound... The software hangs for a good 2min when asked to select the country. now, i'm restoring from my TM backup.... "fingers crossed"
I'm not sure I'm conformable with this level of installation nor am I impressed by the "slowness" of the mac when booting up. the gray screen with the apple logo shouldn't show more than a minute and now it's there for nearly 10. It's zero step forward, 10 backwards.
This experience is making me rather "p*ed" quite frankly. if what used to be a smooth process in the OS is now becoming a total waste of time and productivity; i'm starting to see similarity between the cr*p that Microsoft produces and this very release of OS X.
my macmini feels defective since I updated to SL. even when installing the OS from the DVDs that came with it, I'm unable to proceed or finish the installation. it's horribly slow and it's not working. it's pathetic.

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