Thanks Jim! I was able to boot to a CD and load our custom base. A few hardware tweaks are required for full compatibility like loading the iSight firmware and a sound setting change for the mic to work. I am, however, lost on how to make the restore functionality work. When I go into the boot menu and select restore I'm presented with two errors. One saying "Fast TSC calibration failed" and the other say "i8042: No controller found". The second error looking like the hard drive controller, but I'm confused on the first one. When I type 1 or 2 into the restore screen nothing appears (not able to type). I have to hard shut down.
Any thoughts?