Blue screen with rotating gear

I have installed a new hard drive in a mac mini PPC. When I try to install OS X from the original disk, I get as far as the language selection screen and then it goes to a blue screen with a rotating gear. I have left it there for an hour and nothing changes. I did make sure to format the drive before I tried to install. I don't know what to try but I am very stuck at this point.

Matthew:
Check your formatting against these directions:
Formatting, Partitioning Erasing a Hard Disk Drive
• With computer shut down insert install disk in optical drive.
• Hit Power button and immediately after chime hold down the "C" key.
• Select language
• Go to the Utilities menu (Tiger) Installer menu (Panther & earlier) and launch Disk Utility.
• Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
• Select Partition tab in main panel. (You are about to create a single partition volume.)
• Select number of partition in pull-down menu above Volume diagram.
(Note 1: One partition is normally preferable for an internal HDD.)
• Type in name in Name field (usually Macintosh HD)
• Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
• Click Partition button at bottom of panel.
• Select Erase tab
• Select the sub-volume (indented) under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
• Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
• Click Erase button
• Quit Disk Utility.
Open installer and begin installation process.
cornelius

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My issue was when I quit all applications and logged out. The screen turned a light blue and in the center a spinning gear. After this screen was there for some time, it was just blue...and then it finally went back to the normal login screen and I pressed "sleep".
I woke it up and tried logging in as Guest to see if it did the same thing. I quit all applications and the same result.
I did install Touchcopy that morning...perhaps something happened with that? Although it is supposed to be compatible with Leopard and Snow Leopard and I used the program during the day and it worked fine and quit fine.
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I see people talking about "reparing permissions", but I don't know what this means. As I said, this is my first Mac.
thanks!!!!
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Thanks for your help. I have read so many people talk about "repairing permissions", but I didn't know what that was. I know plenty of Windows maintenance and "best practices", but none for Mac. Thanks..
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Permissions repair complete
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Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
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