Can't boot to 10.4 install disc with Powerbook G4 15" (alu hi-res)

I had the four disc cd version of tiger for my older G3 imac with a slot loading cd-rom drive. I've recently replaced the hard disc in the imac and need to reinstall tiger on it, but it seems the cd-rom drive's given up the ghost. It won't read any discs anymore. So I thought instead I'd start it up in target disc mode and use my powerbook to install tiger to it. However I've run into another problem.
Target disc mode works and everything but the powerbook is having trouble with the boot disc. I thought I'd be able to run the installer off the disc but it asks for the computer to be restarted, so I figured I'd do that and presumably target disc mode would still work. However upon restarting the powerbook and letting tiger load, it gets as far as the apple logo with the spinning loading icon, then after a few minutes of loading the screen goes blue, then it just gets stuck.
The disc drive eventually spins down and nothing happens. I have to force the computer to shut down. I've tried zapping the PRAM but that didn't work. Any ideas what's wrong? I have leopard 10.5 on the powerbook as my default OS, which works fine. The 10.4 disc is also apparently clean as a whistle, no visible scratches. I used disc utility to scan the disc when I was booted into 10.5 and it shows the disc as apparently being ok.

With the retail installer, it should work. Here's some links that may help.
Installing OS X 10.4 'Tiger' on DVD-Challenged Macs Using FireWire Target Disk Mode @ http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0710.html
Installing Tiger Without a DVD Drive
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2005/05/thecats_mustachesinstalling.html
How To: Installing Tiger Using FireWire Target Disk Mode
http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/osx_odyssey_752_how_to_installing_tiger_using_firewire_target_diskmode/
 Cheers, Tom

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