Can't create fresh volume on internal drive for reinstall

Daughter's MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard) was initially believed to be damaged by corrupt Library files, particularly iTunes. A clean install would run fine until iTunes was introduced, leading to instability and finally no boot. But not the issue now (I have a good system and data backup, without iTunes, on an external drive.)
The current problem started when, as part of the reinstall, I did an erase of the hard drive, not the volume.
Now, from the Install DVD, can't create a volume on or format the internal drive.
Using Linux Live CDs, I have been able to format a volume on the drive as FAT32. Verify suggests Repair on this, Repair failed.
In detail:
drive selected -- verify disk -- needs to be rpeaired
drive selected -- repair disk -- can't repair this disk
drive selected -- erase disk -- format as mac os ext journ, zero out -- erase failed, posix input/output error
now startup with resetting PRM, able to create Mac HD volume, appears like success, but not there on reboot.
Round and round endlessly.
Any ideas on how to get this drive with a working, formatted volume, ready for a fresh install?

I''m going to run through this again.
Linc Davis, I did reset the PRAM/NVRAM but may not have waited for three chimes.
When I erase an existing partition, am I not creating a new GUID partition table? If not, how do I do that?
Also, I am concerned about -- A Mac OS X installation can be recovered on 'Mac HD'.
I'll hope to not see that.
Lets go.
Command Option P R held down, four chimes
Oops, Linux disk still in.
How do I get this disk out without support for the eject key? Hold down the trackpad while powering up. That's good to know.
Another PRAM/NVRAM reset. (I know.)
Removing the three linux partiions. os3, os2, error on os1. Erased the second time of asking.
Create new OS X partition, Mac HD.
Erase that volume with writing zeros.
This will take a while.

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