After password reset, can't login to Powerbook G4

My old Powerbook G4 was out of commission for a while because the memory was corrupt. So I bought new memory and installed it into the Powerbook G4.
It finally turned on, but I forgot the password. I wasn't able to find the original install disc so I used the install disc that came with my newer MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5 on it.
The G4 currently has OS X 10.4.10 installed. The 10.5 install disc wasn't able to install OS X 10.5 onto the G4, I'm guessing because its for intel macs only.
So, since all I wanted to do was change the password I was ok with that and went into Utilities/Password Reset. The hardrive didn't even show up! So I restarted the computer, but I accidentally selected the startup disc to be the 10.5 install disc.
No matter it went right back into the installer disc menus, etc. I went into Utilities/Disk Repair and the hardrive showed up. I then did a verify and repair disc which completed successfully. I then went into Password reset and the hard drive showed up this time. I selected it and my user account was there and I reset the password. I then restarted the computer, but again had forgot to tell the computer that the startup disc was the internal hard drive and NOT the 10.5 install disc. I went back to the menus and Utilities/Start Up Disc and changed it back and restarted the computer.
When the computer restarted a finder and ? icon briefly appeared and then went into the normal login window but with a blue screen behind the login dialog box and my user account name was no longer there/selectable. I entered my user account name and the NEW password and it shook. I restarted it two more times and the same thing happened. After those first three times, the finder and ? have never appeared again, however I still cannot login.
I went back to the install disc and tried a verify and repair disc permissions but got an Error: No valid packages (-9997) message. So, I'm lost now, and I figure I need to find the original install disc with OS X 10.4 on it in order to do a reinstallation of the OS. I just hope nothing on my hard drive gets erased.

Hello,
You are correct the Mac OS X 10.5 MacBook disk will be little help to you. I'm surprised it booted to allow you into disk utilities. Your also correct that you would require the disk that came with the PowerBook.
If you try holding down the option key, does that allow you to select your hard drive to boot from?
I do think that you would need to reinstall the OS (Mac OS X 10.4) either using a retail copy of the disk or some replacement system disks. I doubt there is too much wrong with the hard drive itself.

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