Installing Box Set SL on new iMac - cannot boot from DVD...

Hi MacHive
I downloaded Lion today but wanted to install SL on a external USB-Partition because there are 2 PPC games I still like to play every now and then (Homeworld 2 and Alpha Centauri). Then I can boot into SL on my external drive and play the games from there, and having Lion and everything else on the internal HD.
So I started the install (after Disk Utility successfully verified the target disk), it succeeded into copying all the required .pkg into place and at the end of the installer log there are the following messages:
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ***************************** Setting Startup Disk *****************************
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ****** Volume: Mac OS X Install DVD
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ****** Path: /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ******Disk Identifier: disk1s3
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: ****** OF Device Path: IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/SATA@1F,2/PRT1@1/PMP@0
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: Bless on Mac OS X Install DVD succeeded
Jul 30 23:49:12 blop-imac /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/InstallAssistantTool_10_6[323]: Bless of disk1s3 succeeded
At that time, it should restart with the DVD and finish the installation. However, I get the BONG! (good) and the grey apple (good), but then it stops (I never get to the grey moving circle ;-) and soon after, the DVD stops spinning in the drive and nothing progresses anymore.
Retrying to restart normally: same effect. Restarting with "c" key: same effect, restarting with "alt" key - I get my internal HDs and the DVD to choose (but obviously not my target disk), but choosing the DVD results, once more, in the same effect.
The disc has no scratches and I used this disc to install SL successfully some time ago.
Do you know how I can bring SL to the external HD? Is this iMac "too new" to be restarted with the Box Set Mac OS X (supposedly, this is 10.6.0 or so... don't know).
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Fabio
PS: I'm running the following (a 2011 i3 iMac):
Jul 30 23:30:14 blop-imac Install Mac OS X[301]: Hardware: iMac11,2 @ 3.20 GHz (x 4), 4096 MB RAM
Jul 30 23:30:14 blop-imac Install Mac OS X[301]: Running OS Build: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)

Thanks Linc.... In an embarassing lack of concentration I didn't think that I should use the iMac's original disks (10.6.4) and not the box set one (10.6.0 or so). This solved the issue and I could install SL without further troubles. TY again.

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