Well, the katsup only made my RAM more tasty.
I installed a larger system drive and partitioned it into 3 logical drives. I used SuperDuper,
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDup...scription.html, to copy my existing system drive to partition 1 for my legacy stuff and on partition 2 I did a fresh install of OS X 10.3 and PTLE 6.9. and boot to the "PT" start up disk to work.
No weird noises or misbehaving buttons yet. So far, so good.