USB - Boot Camp story

Howdy Apple forum members, this is my story!
I have a 20" Aluminum iMac with Leopard 10.5.5 and I also installed Vista Business SP1 in boot camp. Vista was working rather magnificently for quite a while until yesterday, when I tried to safely remove a USB device and everything went downhill. I eventually had to do a hard reset, and from there on I couldnt boot into either vista or OSX.
I then went into single-user mode and did a fsck -fy, and it told me that my file system was indeed corrupted and proceeded to fix it, good news.
I then noticed something peculiar, this error message in single-user mode:
USBF: 33.387 AppleUSBEHCI[0x3ef3000]:: Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0xfd, timing out! (Addr: 5, EP: 9)
I thought that had something to do with the USB hub I have attached to the back of my imac (Dear Apple, not enough USB ports!). I disconnected the hub and didnt get that error message, I could then also boot into OSX.
I find it hard to believe that a hub took down my whole computer. Expert solutions?

This issue has decided to rear its ugly head once more, months after I bought a different USB hub. I even managed to take a picture this time with my iPhone. This USB driver problem causes my boot to take closer to 8 or 9 minutes. Searching for the OSX Error Code on google gives me many results, but none with the exact same problem as me.
"Screenshot":
http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/1877/IMG_0086.jpg
(Note: That fsck ended with an OK)

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1.
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*To no. 4: Distorted sound and background noise:*
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Hi Apple Ppl of the Wrld: I need help I been working on installing windows 8 on my Mac.
Spec of equipment:
Mac Book Pro Mid 2012
Bootcamp Version: Version 5.0.4 (473)
Bootable USB Flash Drive: Type Scan disk 4 GB windows 8 pro iso image but without the driver and the 2nd Scan disk USB flash drive with 32 GB with the Bootcamp Drivers downloaded and saved to this drive.
Please Note: I also have the original back up installation disc for Microsoft 8 Prof 64 from Microsoft where I purchased it from.
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2: Created a bootable usb drive with bootcamp assistant successfully with bootcamp. Yes I close, ejected or un-mounted any image that was open or had been previously used then i restarted the Mac. Next, I start the bootcamp assistant tool once again then i get the same insert your windows installer disc message.
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http://getintopc.com/softwares/operating-systems/download-windows-8-pro/
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