WON'T REBOOT - NEED HELP!

Well I was experiencing some major issues, as in my Powerbook would not let me boot from an External HDD when my iBook could boot from it with no problem.
My Powerbook would not allow me to boot from a CD either but it could boot from the internal harddrive. I decided to boot up my Powerbook in FW Target Mode and reinstall OSX from the iBook.
I booted the iBook from a partition on the external that was a Restore of the DVD and sucessfully installed OSX on the Powerbook's internal HDD.
I was also able to keep the Powerbook in FW Target Mode and boot it from the iBook.
When I go to boot the Powerbook stand-alone with the Internal HDD, it sometimes gets stuck on the Grey Screen and the status indicator will freeze, other times it will get to the blue screen w/o showing the Mac OSX Loading Bar, other times it has Show the entire progress bar of Loading OSX and even went as far to allow the Dock to pop halfway up. The mouse is frozen everytime it gets to the blue screen.
I have reset PRAM, NVRAM, PMU, etc. I have 2GB of aftermarket RAM installed and took turns swapping out one stick, then the other with not change in results. I no longer have the Apple Factory 512MB stick.
I've ran fsck from Single User mode and the disk appears ok.
I've followed everything from : http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464 with no avail.
I'm really desperate now. I have absolutely no clue what the deal is here.
PLEASE PLEASE, any suggestions would be great.
And does anyone know how I would return the Powerbook without the factory RAM?
Thanks,
Russ

Well it turns out that my Powerbook will NOT boot from a Retail OSX DVD but instead from the Restore Discs only.
Weird, but it's now been solved.

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Message was edited by: chris
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