Arch Linux

[Arlia Janet]

I've heard high praise for Arch Linux recently. I've really hated the way that ubuntu and mac os have been moving the past few years, so the idea of switching to Arch has been tempting.
I've been playing with ArchBang via virtualbox on my ageing Snow Leopard macbook and have had a few problems. The pacman update (pacman -Syy) usually fails or causes my virtual machine to crash. I can get photoshop to work, but the color scheme is skewed from "reality" and I can't fix it. All colors are off which is a game breaker for me because photoshop accounts for about 50% of my computer use. Finally, I tried to install it for real using Boot Camp to partition the hard drive, but I can't seem to figure out how to set up my boot partitions in accordance with rEFIt without getting a giant question mark when I boot up the macbook.
Any advice... apart from trying other distros or buying a PC? I understand that the arch wiki is good, but I have a hard time following it especially when command line prompts start failing. Thank you in advanced.