I seem to have solved it Jephree.

I dont know why it worked, but here is the last things i tried.

Changing the Bios to automatically detect the ATAPI and IDE devices. And this was done to accomodate the now singular CD drive.

Finally, I did unintentionally follow step 14 as you mention above. So it could be either of those at this point.

Whatever it was i just wanted to thank you for your help, i much appreciate it!