this question was never satifactorily answered.

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Which question is that, exactly?

When you're installing OS X on to a 604 mac, how the hell are you supposed to do it? Every time I tried, I get to the installing stage and my 9500 would try to boot from the OS X installer CD, which of course it can't because OS X wont boot up a 9500!Am I missing some vital step here? I do recall following the instructions and they tend to just skip this bit.

Just so you don't think I'm hopeless, the installation worked perfectly on a Powerbook G3/333.

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Well, yes, you are missing something. The 9500 cannot boot OS X without assistance. So if you just put the OS X install CD (assuming it's not for Rhapsody or OS X Server 1.x), you can't boot from it. However, if you download XPostFacto, the XPF app places a few files on your hard drive that allow you to bypass the requirement for a G3 on most Macs. You can then boot OS X 10.0.x, 10.1.y, and 10.2.z on your 9500. But XPF is a requirement. For that matter, it is also a requirement for any flavor of OS X on anything prior to a genuine G3 even if you have upgraded to a G3 or G4 processor.

Peace,

Drew