Ignore question, I found the answer... the crazy installer doesn't think there is anything to install if there is something already in 'receipts'. Yes, I am a newbie to this osx thing.
Thanks for the incredible help here though, and huge kudos to the guys who answered me patiently and with that thing called knowledge.
if you've installed daily snapshot, it's normal. Because daily snapshots are developer versions, and these bugs you've mentioned might be fixed in the snapshot tomorrow.
...so, maybe you need to uninstall the Lazarus again, and rebuild from sources 0.9.28.x as it's more stable or wait for another day and try newer snapshot.
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This is still fun... uninstalled laz and fpc, by running uninstall script on wiki. Turns out it didn't touch /developer/lazarus, so I added it to the script.
But interestingly, when trying to install the older .9.28.2, I get this neat error saying there is nothing to install (after installer complains I am installing over a newer version, so it pretends it's going to let me, even though I can't find a trace of lazarus anywhere).
Any thoughts anyone? I tried the latest snapshot from today, but it's still 'bad' for synedit and moving components on forms.