Argh, well basically I'm an idiot. It would help to have my power supply cord connected to the cd-rom. Give me a break though, I've been on it for hours! I posted that last post before my body forced me to go to sleep.
Right now everything is powered and working, I just had to change the cpu frequency to 3.0GHz in BIOS. I set my cd-rom for first boot primary, and am in the process of installing Vista atm.