Well This lends some street cred to my idea, but how to do it....
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2092

I just got my 4GB card in the mail last night and I did a disk utility on it, so it is formated to OS X, but I keep getting an I/O error when I try to do a restore from a nice small OS X partition I made on one of my FW drives.

Any suggestions?
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