i did a complete reinstall--edited the notebookinstaller so that it would install the s10 drivers to the /Extra/S10Ext/, ran the update extra, and i keep getting the panic screen. im trying kexthelper now (it freezes after installing the kext, but i think thats kexthelper and 10.6.3) now im restarting... lets see how it goes
edit: still no good, resume from sleep leaves screen backlight off.

im going to double check that the file inside /System/Library/Extensions/ says 1006.0.0 or something else
edit2: the file inside /system/library/extensions/ does infact say 1006.0.0, but no good

edit3: edited another line in the appleintegrated...kext, testing now.... no luck...

is it supposed to overwrite the /system/library/extensions file when you run updateextra?