Can't get OS on exterior FW drive to boot after restore OR archive & instal

I had a crash on one exterior FW drive that had my backup 10.3.3 OS on it (just used it for emergencies and for those applications that couldn't handle anything higher.) Did a complete restore using retrospect and all files appear to be intact, but the drive won't boot. I tried:
Checking and unchecking "ignore permissions on this volume"; that had helped with the original crashed drive in the past to get IT to boot; no change.
Tried booting from the original Panther install disks and repaired permissions on the new drive with restored OS; no boot.
Tried booting from the original Panther install disks, with the intention of attempting an archive and install of the non-booting OS; installer WOULD NOT let me install on that disk, red exclamation mark across disk and "continue" button ghosted out.
Tried checking "ignore permissions on this volume" once again; tried installer once again... would not let me install on the restored drive.
The new drive is a FW 500 gig drive; could that have something to do with it? The installer was willing to let me install on my other external 450 gig FW drive, but I don't want the OS on that system, I want to update the restored OS on the 500 gig drive so I can boot from it like the drive I replaced.
Is there a way to "bless" the OSX install on the 500 gig drive and get it to boot without archive & install? Or if not, to get archive & install to install it on that disk!?!?!?!?
Thanks!
Leslie Bell

That would have worked, but it also would have cloned over all the library and application additions to the 10.3.9 OS. What I basically wanted was a nice simple clean 10.3.3 OS install that I could use in emergency cases (secondary boot drive.)
What I did was finally shift all my data around, plus relied on backups, and just formatted and installed the basic Panther OS from my original discs on the 400 gig hard drive that would let me install it on.
And then put all the data I had to juggle around back... still doing that as a matter of fact and will be doing it all night long (had one big video editing project that has to be copied back over.) Not to mention updating various program data new locations.
But I have the backup OS installed and working now.
I'm not sure, but possibly the reason it wouldn't install on the 500 gig hard drive is it's an external Seagate, with a backup feature if you push the on button while it's on (hold to shut off.) Maybe something about that implementation of that feature made it impossible to install on that drive. So I made it my basic data drive, and turned the second Iomega 400 gig drive into a re-installed clone of the Iomega 250 gig drive that crashed.
Only took five days, but next time I'll know to install the OS first and not just try to copy over an entire drive via retrospect backups, because now I know that won't boot. (From a USB installed backup drive, no less!!!)
Thanks!
Leslie Bell

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