How to Format HDD and Install newest OS on a Powerbook G4 Titanium (1Ghz, 512mb Ram)

I have just recently acquired an old Tibook from a friend. The thing is slow and just needs alot of internal work done. Not to mention it's running OS X 10.2 which doesn't allow me to do much.
I have never owned a Macintosh (Apple) in my life so I'm a serious layman when it comes to this albiet I am very litterate with PCs (don't hate).
I would simply like to format the HDD and install a fresh OS because the computer has multiple problems that I have been troubleshooting for hours without any luck. Let me know if and how I can just do an installation over the current OS while wiping all of the old data. I just want a fresh install.
So how do I go about doing this? And whats the newest version of OS X that I can run on this computer? I think this computer is from 2002. If you need more information just let me know!
I'm really excited to learn the other spectrum of computing!

The newest version of Mac OS X that machine can run is Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard. However, with only 512mb of RAM, that OS will run very, very slowly. Even if you install 1gb, which is probably the max for that model (can't tell for sure because I am guessing at the exact model), it will be only marginally usable. My own old G4 PowerBook has 2gb of RAM and it runs Leopard pretty well, but I wouldn't want to use Leopard with less than the 2gb with the 1.25ghz processor in my PowerBook.
I'd recommend installing 10.3 Panther instead of 10.5 Leopard. Panther will run fine with 512mb of RAM and will be very comfortable and speedy if you give it the 1gb upgrade. RAM is very inexpensive right now. Panther also requires less hard drive space, which is a good thing since the hard drive in your machine is probably pretty small. There are lots of good email clients and web browsers to use with Panther in place of Mail and Safari; check out Low End Mac for suggestions and discussions.
Neither Panther nor Leopard are sold by Apple anymore. You can find both at retailers sometimes and frequently on eBay. Leopard tends to be ridiculously expensive, but Panther can often be found for under $40.
http://www.lowendmac.com/

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