"10.4 cannot be installed on this machine?"

I'm currently running 10.4.7 on my macbookpro. To make a long story short, I was partitioning my hard drive using bootcamp when I get the error message saying basically, "can't verify hard disk. run off your installation cd and repair disk."
I get into problems when I try to run off my tiger CD. I have a total of three tiger CDs of different versions (10.4 retail, 10.4.6 that came with my MBP, and a 10.4.7 version that was mailed to me from ADC). I've tried them all, and each time I get the message, "MAC OSx cannot be installed on this machine."
I can't restart holding C either. Anybody know what's going on? Thanks in advance.

Hi Horn,
the problems are evident for the 10.4 retail: There is no retail version of Tiger for Intel Macs. Retail versions are PPC only. Also check the 10.4.7 DVD. It might be a PPC-version as well.
However, you SHOULD be able to boot from the software restore DVD that came with your MBP, so calling AppleCare is definitely a good idea.

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Sorry for the late update- I ended up checking the disks (I have two MacBook Pros bought two months apart) and tried the other one. Turns out that though they were the same OSX (10.6.3 v1) they had different teeny serial numbers.
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