Want to Install 10.6 on Mini built for 10.6 Server - help?

Hi there - I'd recently bought a Mini Server running 10.6 Server Edition, and I'd like to install the regular 10.6 OS on it... but the Mini is not letting me. I keep getting the grey screen of death followed by a kernel puke every time I go to install.
Anyone got any hints on getting that normal 10.6 installed on hardware configured for 10.6 server?
For those wondering: I need the normal 10.6 OS so I can run MAMP. MAMP is not reco'd or supported by 10.6 server - http://forum.mamp.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8062 I actually got MAMP running on 10.6 server... for a bit. Then it started throwing all sorts of errors, would not connect to MySQL, and then finally refused to launch. Ugh.
I will be using this Mini for web dev and running my install of ActiveCollab. Currently I have an older Mini running all of this, but it is running MAMP on 10.5 (not server edition) - and I'm just looking to update to the new Mini hardware, then take that older box and repurpose it somewhere. I actually blogged about the original 10.5 setup a while ago, the overall scenario has been updated a bit since then (not using Remote Desktop Transporter any longer or but it's roughly the same configuration as it was then: http://www.fatheaddesign.com/352/build-your-own-mac-dev-server-for-under-100/
Thanks so much for any assistance everyone, any help is very much appreciated!

Niel: Fantastic suggestion, and I am definitely going to try this.
Question though: if I can't get this Mini to boot from a normal OS install disc, then what happens in the future if I need to do any maintenance on it via bootable OS disc?
Just thinking out loud here, if that cloning method works than possibly I should do a mirror of the system onto a hard drive right after install, just in case. Then if anything happens I can either fall back on my Time Machine backups or do a clean reinstall from the mirror and then restore files from the Time Machine backup.

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