Struggling with InstallerChoice XML stuff

Here’s hoping someone can point out what I’m missing…

I’m trying to move to the InstaDMG package building system, after experimenting for quite some time with the PKG Image product. However, I’m greatly struggling with the InstallerChoices setup and starting to feel a bit stupid. I’ve followed the instructions to a T (I think), even going through them from start to finish several times… But for some reason my selections are not getting applied…

Possibly relevant info:
• Runnin on MacBook with Mac OS X 10.5.5
• I have a retail 10.5 install CD in the drive
• I have an external HD plugged in with a blank volume called Test to target

First, I get the list of the default choices with the following command:

sudo installer -showChoicesXML -pkg /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg -target /Volumes/Test > ~/Desktop/OSInstall_default.xml

This gives me a nice XML list of all the possible choices and details about those choices. I then used the the following command from Patrick’s original instructions to filter it to an easier to read list…

grep -A 1 choiceIdentifier ~/Desktop/OSInstall_default.xml > ~/Desktop/OSInstall_choiceIdentifiers.txt

Then I went through and worked through which I wanted to enable/disable, using the ‘each entry = 1 click’ concept, I used Smultron to create this file, which looks like:

<array>
	<string>AdditionalFonts</string>
	<string>Japanese</string>
	<string>German</string>
	<string>Spanish</string>
	<string>Italian</string>
	<string>Dutch</string>
	<string>Danish</string>
	<string>Finnish</string>
	<string>Korean</string>
	<string>Norwegian</string>
	<string>Russian</string>
	<string>Swedish</string>
	<string>BrazilianPortuguese</string>
	<string>SimplifiedChinese</string>
	<string>TraditionalChinese</string>
	<string>Portuguese</string>
	<string>Polish</string>
	<string>X11</string>
</array>

If I’m understanding the process properly, I’ve turned off Asian languages, Additional fonts, X11, and all extra languages except for French, which I need.

However, when I try to apply this to see the results, using the following command…

sudo installer -showChoicesAfterApplyingChangesXML ~/Desktop/LeopardChoices.xml -pkg /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg -target /Volumes/Test > ~/Desktop/OSinstall_afterChoice.xml

I am definitely not getting the results I expect, in fact, I can’t see any results at all. Nothing gets enabled or disabled, as shown below:

Additional Fonts:

<dict>
		<key>childItems</key>
		<array/>
		<key>choiceDescription</key>
		<string>Installs additional fonts with support for Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tibetan, Armenian, Cherokee and Inuktitut.</string>
		<key>choiceIdentifier</key>
		<string>AdditionalFonts</string>
		<key>choiceIsEnabled</key>
		<true/>
		<key>choiceIsSelected</key>
		<integer>1</integer>
		<key>choiceIsVisible</key>
		<true/>
		<key>choiceSizeInKilobytes</key>
		<integer>144818</integer>
		<key>choiceTitle</key>
		<string>Additional Fonts</string>
		<key>pathsOfActivePackagesInChoice</key>
		<array>
			<string>file://localhost/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/AdditionalFonts.pkg</string>
		</array>
	</dict>

Spanish (shows same for all other languages):

<dict>
		<key>childItems</key>
		<array/>
		<key>choiceDescription</key>
		<string>This package contains all of the necessary files to run Mac OS X in Spanish.</string>
		<key>choiceIdentifier</key>
		<string>Spanish</string>
		<key>choiceIsEnabled</key>
		<true/>
		<key>choiceIsSelected</key>
		<integer>1</integer>
		<key>choiceIsVisible</key>
		<true/>
		<key>choiceSizeInKilobytes</key>
		<integer>117878</integer>
		<key>choiceTitle</key>
		<string>Spanish</string>
		<key>pathsOfActivePackagesInChoice</key>
		<array>
			<string>file://localhost/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/Spanish.pkg</string>
		</array>
	</dict>

X11:

<dict>
		<key>childItems</key>
		<array/>
		<key>choiceDescription</key>
		<string>X11 windowing system for UNIX environments</string>
		<key>choiceIdentifier</key>
		<string>X11</string>
		<key>choiceIsEnabled</key>
		<true/>
		<key>choiceIsSelected</key>
		<integer>1</integer>
		<key>choiceIsVisible</key>
		<true/>
		<key>choiceSizeInKilobytes</key>
		<integer>119918</integer>
		<key>choiceTitle</key>
		<string>X11</string>
		<key>pathsOfActivePackagesInChoice</key>
		<array>
			<string>file://localhost/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/X11User.pkg</string>
		</array>
	</dict>

And so on. I’ve tried creating the choices file in Pico, only disabling one item, all to no avail. Any ideas?