Put the little PB back together (accidently ripped one of the wires out of the microphone connector in the process) with the new hard drive. Everything seemed to go well until I attempted to power it up.
I hear the familiar slight pop from the speakers and nothing.
It's dead. Won't start via battery power or plugged into AC.
Not sure what the issue could be, but I'm sad and really, really miss my OS X.
Next step is to take it apart again and see what I could have f***ed up, then see how much Apple will charge to troubleshoot it for me and then consult
PowerBookResQ as an alternative.
Ya know, work is going so well that I just might go grab a new PB - they're up to 1.3Ghz, so why not?