10.4 Install discs will not boot

I have an Xserve Xeon 2 x Dual Core and am unable to boot from the original 10.4 install discs to do a clean install. When the machine was running I did install the firmware upgrade (wondering if this has something to do with it).
Any ideas?

Some additional background:
The Xserve was running a drive with 10.4.11 Server. The drive went bad and I'm now in the process of reinstalling from the original discs. Before the 10.4.11 drive died, I installed a firmware update to my Xserve (Xeon 2 x Dual Core 2Ghz).
I cannot get the machine to boot from the install discs--from either the built-in DVD-R drive or an attached firewire DVD-RW drive.
Any ideas?

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