Can't do a clean install of Tiger - receive error message

I am running Tiger 10.4.11. I've had some system quirks recently, so I wanted to do a clean install of Tiger using the install disk. But when I insert the install disk and click on the installer, I get an error message that says "Mac OS X 10.4 can't be installed on this machine. Please consult the documentation for the list of supported Macintosh computers." Any ideas what is going on here?? Any help appreciated.
Thank you,
Bob

It turns out I had the Tiger disk from my old Powerbook, and not the Tiger disk from my Macbook. That solves that question.
However, it still won't let me do a clean reinstall where my data is preserved - it said it had to reformat the disk which would erase all the data.

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