Buying a full retail install OS X 10.5 for upgrade

Hi all,
I've got a 15" Powerbook G4, currently running Tiger (which I upgraded to; the machine originally came with Panther). I've since lost the install discs, but I'd like to do a full re-install and thought I may as well buy the install discs for Leopard. I've been looking around and they seem quite hard to find. Many of those on eBay ("Full Retail Install DVD") say that they've been used once. Would I be able to use these, or can you only do one install per disk?
Thanks,
Matt.

The SLA for Leopard says that it can only be installed on one Mac at the same time. There is no problem with buying and using a used Leopard DVD, as long as you only install it on one of your Macs. The previous owner should have deleted Leopard from his Mac before parting with the install DVD. But if he didn't, it won't affect your ability to use the DVD according to the permitted terms under the license.
Make sure you get the full retail version. A grey-coloured Leopard System Restore DVD that shipped with a new Mac will only work with the same model it shipped with; it won't work on yours.

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If you're not going to use the Lenovo-provided 3rd-party software products (which mostly are lite or trial versions that you need to pay for anyway if you really want to use them fully-featured), or if you already have your own collection of 3rd-party products (both free and non-free) that you would be installing after-the-fact and using anyway on your new W530 no matter how you got whichever Windows version installed (and thus you'd probably be UNINSTALLING any "bloatware" from your delivered W530 in any case), just do what you want if you have a retail Ultimate and you want to use it.
As a 2-year owner of a W530 (243852U, Win7 Pro x64, K1000M, 8GB memory) who 1 year ago replaced the original 500GB spinner with a 512GB Samsung 840 Pro and reinstalled "from scratch" using a retail Windows Pro x64 installation DVD rather than even considering using Lenovo's recovery media (which I never even kept in the first place!), my own feeling is that creating a "pure" self-installed Windows is amost always the way to start if you have a day or two... assuming you have a retail Windows installation DVD and your own collection of 3rd-party software products which characterize any machine setup that you build.
I already maintain my own manually maintained collection of latest up-to-date drivers and Lenovo system products for the W530, as I am periodically checking for any recent updates on their W530 driver download site and maintain my own local folder of all of these installer files anyway so using them all if I had to start over from scratch is not an issue. Actually, I also use more recent versions of drivers from Intel and nVidia than Lenovo provides.
In actuality, the ONLY piece of Lenovo-provided software I have SOMETIMES used is System Update installed on my machine. This is actually a theoretically automated and accurate way of getting all latest drivers and other software needed by your own particular machine which have not already been obtained through standard Windows Updates anyway. But in my experience the database referenced by System Update is not always up-to-date, and often lags somewhat from the actual W530 download site.
Bottom line: I could have my W530 totally devoid of ANY Lenovo-provided system utilities and it would not affect me, but then that's just me. I certainly have not used ANY of the Lenovo-provided 3rd-party software products, as I have my own collection of fully-licensed products that mostly all get installed onto all of my machines (desktop or laptop).
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