Hey!  I got this sucka working!  :)

I hacked things so it would build the iso-image using an 
ACPI+MP version of the INSTALL kernel and let sysinst
do its thing.  When finished, all I had to do was overload
a GENERIC_ACPI.MP kernel (I forgot to hack that part
of the iso image...) and it boots all the way to multi-user!

Now if only I can figure out how to get X started...

Thanks for all the clues.

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