No S-Video to TV output on PowerBook?

I know this is a MacBook Pro forum, but I didn't get a reply over at the PowerBook forum. Hopefully there's someone with PowerBook knowledge in this forum.
Yesterday I tried to hook up my sister's old 15" 1GHZ Ti Powerbook to her TV. The TV was black. No audio or video. I used an s-video/3.5mm stereo plug to scart cable. As per Apple's instructions, I rebooted the Mac and turned the TV off. I also played with different resolutions, including 640x480. During a reboot, the TV doesn't show any signs of getting a signal (no flicker etc).
Her TV is PAL but I didn't find anywhere in the Display settings where I could change the Mac's output to PAL or NTSC. Her TiBook is running 10.5.4.
Does anyone know what I could do to solve this. Also, could someone who has successfully connected their Powerbook to a TV through the S-Video output, tell me the proper procedure to do so. I just feel as if I should enable the S-Video output somehow but can't find any settings for it.

Daft suggestion, on my old PBG4, I spent a fair while in a similar position, the scart adapter had a slider on the top - this specified the convert direction - needless to say I had the slider the wrong way.
If that is not applicable, then make sure you have selected AV, and cycle though AV, incase there is more than one AV channel on your TV, as I am in the UK, my TV is also PAL, so that shouldn't make a difference.
If the mac finds the extra display, then screen goes blue, while it sorts itself out, if this doesn't happen, the mac is not 'finding' the TV.
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