Blue Screen When Trying To Install Leopard

Hi
So I've just picked up this old iBook G4 for next to nothing. I popped in a new 512MB RAM stick and a 20GB HDD to see if I could get it up and running.
My friend gave me his old Leopard install DVD, so I booted it up and formatted the drive to Apples spec. I then began the installation.
The machine began to check the disk integrity, which was taking quite a while. I went to check on it and it had frozen at 21% (the mouse wouldn't move), so I turned the machine off.
Following some information on the internet I booted into Single User mode (CMD-S) and ran 'fsck -f'. Upon rebooting my machine now displays the Apple logo, spinning wheel and then goes to a blue screen where it hangs. I have read here that it could be an issue with a chip overheating. I find this hard to believe in my case because I can leave the machine running in single user terminal without any freezes. (I have been running fsck a few times to test this).
Any ideas?
EDIT: Just did a verbose boot - the only error message that jumped out was ''no interface name for airport.." which came up twice. Does this help?
Thanks a lot

When it freezes up like that, the first thing to try is a force-quit. Hold down the Command + Option keys and then press the escape key. If this works, a box will pop up which will allow you to quit applications which are not responding.
If a force-quit doesn't work, you can do a hard shutdown by holding down the power button for five to ten seconds. Then try to start up using Safe Mode. This takes quite a lot longer than a regular startup because it does a check and repair of the hard drive. If this works, you will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up in Safe Mode, try to restart normally, and go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Click on the top hard drive icon in the left sidebar and note the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom right of the pane. What does it say? If it says the drive is failing, it definitely needs to be replaced (but even if it doesn't say so, this could still be the problem).
When my hard drive in my MacBook failed, there was no restarting it in any way, and no recovering of anything on it.
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