After kernal panic, zeroed HD but Fresh Tiger install fails...

Question

Our little brave 12" PowerBook G4 started to behave a little odd today.
It all started with iTunes being empty all of a sudden. And when I tried to import the old playlist, iTunes [9.2] crashed. Did this a few times when something started nagging in the back of my head. So:
1 - I made a backup.
2 - PRAM startup wich gave me a black Darwin screen with a few lines like this:
hfs_swap_BTNode: record #1 invalid offset (0x4050).......
3 - started up in Target modes on my MacBook
4 - Did a Disk Utility repair which failed [keys out of order]
5 - DiskWarrior gave me while writing the replacement directory [ error code (2351, -36)] 3 times, the 4th time it went ok and rebuild the disk
6 - tried starting up and it gave me a black screen again with a bunch of lines and the last line saying:
waiting for remote debugger connection
7 - I did another round of PRAM restarts and gave me another black screen with the ultimate line:
Panic: We are hanging here...
8 - So I took the Tiger installer disks and ran a Hardware Test. Which it passed succesfully.
9 - Then I zoroed the HD with the Disk Utility on the installer DVD
10 - Tried to install a clean install of Tiger but it failed giving me:
There were problems installing the software
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Let me suggest you try:
Drive Preparation
1.  Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button.  When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. (May be the Installer menu on Tiger.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area.  If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.  SMART info will not be reported  on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to APM then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Once the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Complete the installation.
I would do a thorough cleaning of your Tiger installer disc beforehand.