Can't Reinstall OS - Stuck in no-man's-land!  | iMac Tangerine on OS X

Hello all,
Had a quick question that I can't seem to find a proper answer to..
I'm wanting to place my OS X Install Discs on my External HD as backups.
Turns out I have another computer (iMac Tangerine) that does not have a DVD-ROM drive, just an OLD CD-ROM drive (that doesn't even support CD-R incidentally - so that's out)...
Sort of stumped. My best guess is that maybe if I move the OS X Discs onto my External Hard Drive - using my MacBook - I can then plug the Ex. HD into the iMac (has firewire) and perform the much-needed OS X Reinstall....
Tools:
MacBook
LaCie 150GB External HD
iMac - fried OS, no System Pref. No Disk Utility, won't accept online apps I've tried to download etc. etc..
Need to kill the whole thing off - and reinstall everything on the iMac.
Please help.
Thanks very much in advance...
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A Tangerine iMac has either:
Tray-loading CD-ROM - No Firewire, or
Slot-loading DVD-ROM - With Firewire.
If it's the former get the Tiger Retail DVD swapped for CDs (form)
If it's the latter you should just be able to do the re-install.
mrtotes

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