Start up and Installation Issues Macbook can't run Mac os X!

I have a Macbook 1.83ghz with 2gb of ram. I upgrade the harddrive as soon as i got it used to 250gb (it was around june). In september i decided to upgrade to leopard. The installation was suscessful. Now here's the problem, at the end of November, the computer starts acting slow, still having 60gb free on each partition ( i bootcamp windows vista and divided the hd in 1/2). I decided to reinstall leopard. Installation success then two weeks before Christmas the computer gave me a repair disk and stopped booting. I repaired disk and volume was ok. I format the partition of mac os x and installation success, i go to welcome screen do the process and after clicking done then the screens stays blue, switches to gray and blue again. I left it on all night and nothing.
I tried the installation again, reformatting and the same thing, each time the welcome screen process went slower and slower. I deleted the wholes hard drive, including windows and still the same. However when i put the vista dvd it installs ok, and runs vista ok. I tried ubuntu and works ok but when I tried to install leopard now the installation fails. I don't know why it doesn't want to install mac but installs vista and ubuntu.
Can anyone help me here? Do i need to send it for repair?

Your friend if he has a disc which says any other Mac model name, or if it was made for the same Mac model on the label, but has a different operating system than shipped with your Mac, it won't work on your Mac.
If he has the full retail with the image I show above, it still is NOT legal for you to use his disc, unless you live in the same physical abode with him, and he is your family, and he has installed it on 4 or less machines, and it is the family license. Otherwise, you must purchase your own copy to stay within the law.
If you purchase your own full retail as I describe above, and you still have trouble erase and installing the operating system after backing up your data*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
It may mean your machine has a hardware problem.
Second handed discs are of unknown reliability, and should NEVER be used.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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