Compact Flash Boot problems

Good afternoon. Let me start out by saying I'm a total *newb* to the
Openbrick world, and having come over to Linux from the Microsoft world
about a year ago. I still consider myself a neophyte. Any help will be
greatly appreciated. Thanks ahead of time. Here's my situation.
 
I was recently given the opportunity to evaluate an OpenBrick E 520 E
with no hard drive and a 256meg CF card. ( http://www,storever.com
<http://www,storever.com/> ) I had assumed that all settings were
generic inside the box, but lo and behold, someone had customized the
LRP packages, boot params, etc. to the point that I was barely able to
boot. After much pain and suffering to reconfigure, (as well as
documentation hunting, setup tips) I decided to go ahead and try to
reload the CF card via the posted method 3 at:
http://www.openbrick.org/en/Members/jp/ihnstall.stx/view 
 
I have been unable to get the brick to boot off the CF card. 
 
Here's my setup:
 
Dell machine with Red Hat Linux and the Sandisk card reader for file
transfers. And scripts. All good to go there. I can read the CF, and
copy files back and forth.
 
 
My install-shared.sh looks like this:
 
CF_TGZ_DIR=/leafinstall/
CF_IMG_DIR=/leafinstall/
CF_MOUNT_POINT=/mnt/flash/Openbrick/cf
 
I get "already" mounted errors, and then a fatal error, but it appears
the files transfer anyway. I just can't seem to get the sucker to boot.
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have since formatted the CF so
I can start fresh. 
 
Thank you,
 
David Nist