Bart set me up with a new SDHC card, and I returned to the fray.
My guide was not working so well. The guide predicted results which did not occur. I studied further, did more digging, and found that the guide was actually for an HP Mini 1000, not an HP Mini 110. Some dunderhead had plagiarized the guide, and then another dunderhead rewrote it very slightly.
A third dunderhead posted it elsewhere. That's a lot of people posting a guide which doesn't work - and never should have. It's for a different computer model than the one they labelled it with.
I expressed my displeasure on the message board for one of the guides, and then moved on to Plan G. This is a different approach to installing OS X on the HP Mini 110. It starts with a retail OS X DVD.
If this method fails, I will install Ubuntu Netbook Remix. If it succeeds, I will link the guide.
More as I move sideways...