Pacifist works great, Bill, even if it's a beta. Not sure about it working with 10.2.8 thou.
But, my question is "what does pacifist have to do with creating a bootable utility CD?"
I have not tried BootCD yet in OS 10.2.8. But it makes a great bootable CD from 10.2.6. Only cavet, is what Nikki said, it is slow in booting up.