10.2 to 10.3.3 upgrade gone bad

Ok, here is the situation. My brother was trying to be kind and upgrade my Aunt's G4 17" flat panel iMac (iLamp) from 10.2.X to 10.3.3 using a machine specific install/restore CD from a 14" laptop. He wasn't aware that you cannot do this. The machine stopped the upgrade at some point as Disk 1 was finishing, errored out, and now won't boot past the grey screen of death.
We have tried it all (I'm 1150 miles away) via phone. Reset PRAM and PMU. Tried booting single user and giving commands that way, have tried booting in Safe Boot mode which results in Kernal panics.
The computer will not obey the c key on boot for any CD except the Hardware test cd, which is passes. We have tried booting holding the Option key, and it does recognize CDs as bootable, but will not actually start up from them. It also shows the Hard Drive but will not boot from it either.
Yesterday, we were able to start up in Target Disk Mode and retrieve all of the family's vital stuff on to the laptop for safe keeping. We tried Disk Utility which found nothing wrong with the HD. It would not let us repair permissions however (I think that is odd) as the button was greyed out.
Now we would just like to start over on this drive, but it won't let us! It will not even recognize the restore CDs the iMac originally came with, taking it back to some version of 10.2.
Any other ideas I haven't persued here? There may be more to this that I have even failed to mention as it has now been a three night adventure.

I have no ideas at this point but, as there could well be a hardware issue at play, I recommend cross-posting in the iMac G4 forums here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=137

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Ok, here is the situation. My brother was trying to be kind and upgrade my Aunt's G4 17" flat panel iMac (iLamp) from 10.2.X to 10.3.3 using a machine specific install/restore CD from a 14" laptop. He wasn't aware that you cannot do this. The machine stopped the upgrade at some point as Disk 1 was finishing, errored out, and now won't boot past the grey screen of death.
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You said you were able to get into disk utility? And you also said you have everything (info) backed up off the drive? Have you tried using disk utility to erase and reformat the hard drive? Maybe try doing a reformat on the drive and create a different partition scheme. IE if it currently only has one partition, create two, reformat it then go back and reformat to a single partition.
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