Can't Install Fresh OS X on Mac Pro

Hi there,
I recently bought a used Mac Pro 1,1 2,66Ghz, running on OS 10.5 (leopard). After buying it i found out there were no installlation discs. Found an original "Mac Pro" pair on Ebay for leopard.
Waiting on the installation discs i already installed my upgrade for snow leopard and my Logic Studio. It all worked fine.
Tonight i tried to do a fresh install for this mac (received the original install dvds'). Inserted the install dvd, selected the requested language and all of a sudden it tells me that "it is not possible to install OS X on this computer". Thats odd !! I checked the startup disc, and opened Disk Utility to see if there was anything why i can't install. Found out there was a partition running on the HD, so i deleted the partition. Tried to install it again but it still tells me i can't install OSX. it can't even locate the HD anymore so the ony thing i can choose from now is to start up from the install dvd (which doesn't work) or through a network.
I've read some topics on this forum about some related issues, but honestly that doesn't say anything to me. I'm hoping somebody can explain to me what's going on.
To make things clear, here is the model and equipment. As far as i can tell it is the original set up as how it came out of the factory (exept for the Ram)
Model: Macpro 1,1 (MA356LL/A)
Processor: Intel Xeon 5100 series 2x2,66Ghz Dual Core
Harddrive: 250GB
Media: Superdrive
RAM: 4 GB (4x1GB)
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT 256MB
As i mentioned, OS 10.5 was on it when i bought it. I've upgraded it to 10.6.4 thru original apple software and it worked well.
Thanks in advance
Coen

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