lol. whoops, I tried the 'AppleIntelCPUPowerMangement fix' or 'patch' or whatever its called in the new myhack 3.3.1 and it blew up my 10.8.5 partition... -f -v -x doesn't even work... oh well... I had a bit of time (my 1 month old kid finally fell asleep for a while) so I tried redoing my 10.9 installer USB and I've tried a few different ways but I always get "The OS X installation couldn't be completed" when I boot from it and it forces me to shutdown or reboot... never seen that before using myhack 3.2 beta 8. I think I'm going to take a break from this for a while and regroup at a later time... Especially since I only have a 10.6.8 D420 left now and it can't even run the latest myhack on it (incompatible with 10.6.8) to make another USB installer (and too lazy to reinstall 10.8.5 for the millionth time). steno, I'm leaving it up to you to figure it out and give detailed instructions on how to get 10.9 installed lol
Anyways, thanks for all your help everyone. I'll definitely keep monitoring this thread to see how it progresses.