Can't install OSX on iMac DV 400

I have a Blueberry iMac DV 400 with 512MB/10GB and a clean install of 9.1. The hard drive was formatted journaled with Disk Utility from the 10.3 install CD.
I've tried installing 10.3, 10.3.5, and 10.2 with no luck. When trying to install 10.3, I get to the part of the install where it's reading packages and the screen goes blue with the black spinning dial gauge. When I tried to install 10.2, I got the spinning beach ball and then a black screen that said the install could not continue and I needed to restart.
The computer runs fine under 9.1. My niece had been using it for years until she upgraded to an iMac G5
Anyone have any ideas what is causing this?

Thanks. I think I have plenty of hard drive space as it's a 10GB drive and with only OS9 on it, there's about 8GB free space.
However, that article "Mac OS X: Troubleshooting installation and software updates" lead me to this one:
"Troubleshooting Mac OS X installation from CD or DVD"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106693
As suggested in this article, I will try copying all the files on the CD to the hard drive to check the optical drive. If that works OK, then I'll pull the RAM one DIMM at a time to check that.

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