Upgrade from 10.5 to 10.6 stalls at "Updating Services..."

Hi,
tried to migrate my small office' mac mini server from 10.5 to 10.6. The system hosts approx. 30 accounts with around 10gb of mail data (and many other services, of course). I had lots of problems doing a remote install, the software didn't accept the hardware serial number to identify even though it was correct. Nevertheless I managed to install SL, but when the configuration starts (after the first reboot), the tool stalls at "Updating services...". I ssh'ed into the box and checked the cpu etc. with "top", all I did see was 2-3MB/s written to the disk (which is nothing) and a process called "cvt_cyrus" that used very little cpu. after 5h of staying at the same state in the status bar of the tool, I had to reboot the server and put the old image (leopard server) back to make it work before people start to using the machine again in the morning. I have no clue if the migration from cyrus data takes so long or if the process simply stalled due to a bug. And I don't know how to proceed: I'm sure on the next try the installation will stall again at the same point.
Any ideas, anyone? Could the migration of the cyrus db take so long?

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