G3 won't boot from hard drives or startup (original) CDs

I recently installed OS X 10.4 on my Mac G3 (6GB HD, 256MB Ram, blue & white). It ran fine for one week. After one week, when it would boot up, I would have 800 MB of free space. Within a few minutes I would get an out of memory error and my HD would have zero space left...effectively locking up the machine. I was told to increase my memory to 1GB (I did) and to install a new HD (I did, a Seagate 80GB). I partitioned the Seagate into two equal partitions. About the time that the OS finished this task, I received a security upate installation dialogue asking me in install a new security update. I said "OK". About the time the security update was installed, the system ran out of memory...then asked me to restart the machine. I have not been able to get it to restart since. Can't startup with the OS9 CD, the OSX CD OR Diskwarrior. I keep getting the same message..."panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002DE020): Unable to find driver for this platform: "powerMac1,1". Then there is a whole lot of other stuff with a final comment "We are hanging here..." I can't seem to find anyone to help me with this. I brought the machine back to its orginal configuration...didn't work. I disconnected the old 6GB HD and was able to install OSX on the new drive...but, after installing on the new hard drive, I rebooted and I am back to the same errors. I keep getting the OS9 flashing folder with "?"/face. HELP!
Thanks,
Pat
G3 Blue & Whote   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

You are having kernel panics as shown in this Apple doc.#106227.
Do everything, in order, in Dr.Smokes Resolving Kernel Panics and don't leave out any steps.
Quote from Dr.Smoke "My FAQ is a roadmap: start at the beginning and work through to the end, following the instruction in the order specified, including the "If all else fails..." section if a cause or resolution is not found in an earlier troubleshooting step therein"
Here's more at a brody's KP site.
Cheers!
DALE

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