My 2006 MBP 15" has now been erased. How do I install the system again

Because I was having problems with my 2006 MBP 15 " - sudden freezing up,  I tried several ways of fixing it all  without success.
Eventually, I was forced into erasing the 500 GB  harddrive completely using DU from the install disks (Tiger) that came with it
and had hoped I could re-install the system afresh from the original disks.
On start up all I get is the "Welcome page" again and it repeats itself continually. If i select any thing the spinning beach ball
occurs and a forced shutdown is required.
Everytime I do an install, I get to  a "welcome page" and go thru the usual entering of details etc.  but  every time after I get to
clicking on "continue",  when setting up ownership/address,  I get a spinning beachball and can get no further.
This  continually repeats itself and  If i select any thing the spinning beach ball occurs and a forced shutdown is required.
I've tried starting up from an external drive with a firewire cable,  but again nothing constructive happens, but I do get a popup saying
it can't find my "home folder as its not in the right place or its missing completely" 
Using DU I have tried to do a restore but some how I'm unable to select either the source or the destination - its either all
or nothing available in the side bar of DU.
It seems to me that whatever I do on the MBP I get the spinning ball and no further - even leaving it for a couple of hours -
and still spinning.
Can anyone suggest ways of doing an install, please.
Does it look terminalto you?

The external drive is a bootable one done with SuperDuper.
I am able to do a startup with it but then I get that window saying home folder is missing etc.
Surely i should be able to install the Op/System using the original disks that came with it, or will they only work if there is something on the H/D  to start with. I completely erased it to start withj.
I've just found an Install disk for Tiger I bought in 2006 - perhaps that might work or not.

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