10.3.9 doesn't show up as a startup disk

A massive pain here.
I'm at a friend's computer helping him with problems on this outdated 350Power PC with 256MBRAM. It's running (usualluy 10.3.9)
I started up from classic to check something and when it loaded it tells me I'm in 9.2.1 (not 9.2.2) and when I go to start up disk in the control panel, 10.3.9 is not visible and consequently not available.
He's recently moved and we can't find either the OSX nor the 9.2.2 disks anywhere, so I can't start up from the disk.
How do I get back to 10.3.9?
I'm flying home in a few hours and can't leave him like this. Please help!
Joe

Four different guys I spoke with said re-installing 3.9 was the only solution.
Then I spoke with a friend who told me to hold down the X key when restarting, which worked like a charm.
Shouldn't there be a list of all these shortcuts somewhere immediately noticeable on the Apple forums? I knew scads of them from OS9 and earlier, but the lack of problems in OSX have made me complacent and therefore vulnerable.
Joe

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