Bootable CD Woes

Okay, here's the scoop: I'm looking for a bootable CD that boots as fast as the Mac OS X Installation CD does. The reason, I want to run Apple Software Restore from the command line.

Boot CD is a nice application that automates creating a bootable CD. The problem is that the CDs are always extremely slow to boot, taking upwards of 10-15 minutes. The Installation CD seems to boot in normal time.

I noticed that under the Installer menu on the Install CD are some applications you can run: Disk Copy, Reset Password, and Terminal. Terminal was greyed out, but I had a marvalous idea. I made an image of the CD and copied the Terminal Application into the same folder as the other programs and then burned that image. Volla! I could now use the Terminal. One problem - ASR was not one of the commands on the disk. I copied that over. Now, ASR works when cloning a drive to another drive, but it does not work when you try to install from an image. When running with the source as an image, it gives me an error when it tries to validate the source. Here are some of the errors that concern that: "DI_CreateDrive: failed
/usr/bin/hdid: DIAttachDrive() failed - no such file or dirrectory
/usr/bin/hdid: mounting "Macintosh HD_asr.dmg" failed: error 199"

If anyone knows how to fix this, or another solution to creating a fast bootable CD that allows you to input commands, be it a bootable command-line CD or GUI CD, let me know.