Can't REinstall leopard, and I'm losing my patience

Here's the thing. My computer has been having kernel panics and has been running way too slow. So, what I wanted to do was to erase everything and reinstall Leopard. So, I tried doing it with a copy of the original Leopard DVD that I have. I selected delete and install on my Macintosh HD partition. I let the machine verify de DVD (took half an hour I think) and the process started. Not even One third through I got a message that the media source had an error or something like that. So, everything was erased from my Macintosh HD, but nothing installed. So, I tried again, same error. After about three tries, I gave up and went to my office and brought the original Leopard DVD I have. I tried reinstalling with it and I got the same error twice so I gave up with that.
So, I partitioned an external USB Hard drive, and in a 10 GB partition I restored an image of the original Leopard DVD. To my surprise, I got the same error message, "media source error" etc. So, I restored to a time machine backup date from my external firewire HD. My plan was to partition my firewire HD and do the same thing I did with my usb HD, but only this time it will be a firewire drive and it may work. So, the restore went fine, and I partitioned my HD (all my time machine backups were erased in order to partition the HD), so I told time machine to make a back up now. When time machine was backing up my drive, I got an error, and the drive couldn't be backed up. So, I tried again, and the same error appeared. I don't remember if it said anything about the error (because it was very late last night), but I think it only said that time machine couldn't complete the backup because there was an internal error, something like that.
So now, what should I do? I can't try to install leopard again because I have nothing to restore from, and I can't backup my drive because Time machine encounters errors when it tries. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Resolving kernel panics:
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http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html
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