Panic during leopard install

Just got my leopard DVD....I put it in, held down the option key or whatever and selected the DVD from the boot menu that comes up.
A couple times while sitting at that first menu before I click "english" and a few times just before or after I click accept on the license agreement thing the screen goes grey and i get a kernel panic. Here is my panic log:
Tue Oct 30 18:09:31 2007
Machine-check capabilities (cpu 1) 0x0000000000000006:
6 error-reporting banks
Machine-check status 0x0000000000000004
machine-check in progress
MCA error-reporting registers:
IA32MC0STATUS(0x401): 0x1000000000000000 invalid
IA32MC1STATUS(0x405): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32MC2STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid
IA32MC3STATUS(0x40d): 0x0020000000000000 invalid
IA32MC4STATUS(0x411): 0xf200000000060151 valid
MCA error code : 0x0151
Model specific error code: 0x0006
Other information : 0x00000000
Status bits:
Processor context corrupt
Error enabled
Uncorrected error
Error overflow
IA32MC5STATUS(0x415): 0xb200003008000e0f valid
MCA error code : 0x0e0f
Model specific error code: 0x0800
Other information : 0x00000030
Status bits:
Processor context corrupt
Error enabled
Uncorrected error
Machine-check capabilities (cpu 0) 0xpanic(cpu 000000010000 c0ll6:
er rror-re0ortixg banks
001A756F): Machine-check sMatusachine0Check atx0x000000000000005
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your thoughts?

Have you tried putting in the DVD while running Tiger and double-clicking on the disk icon??

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