Cannot boot from Leopard Install DVD

Now that I know I have to archive and install (based on a previous post), I'm trying to boot off of my Leopard Install DVD. I put it in the drive when starting up, hold down "C", and nothing happens. I end up booting from the hard drive and getting stuck again. I reboot the computer, try again, and again, nothing. Finally, I pressed "option" on boot-up, got the boot menu, the DVD appeared after a moment, and I clicked on it. I could hear the drive spin-up, then nothing happened. It went to the hard drive again and got stuck in its reboot loop.
The drive should be fine, as I've been using it for normal purposes lately (including ripping music off of my CDs yesterday). Is there any other reason that an OS X Leopard Install DVD wouldn't boot properly? Is it the DVD itself? Or might there be another reason?
Thank you,
Joel

If the MacBook Pro was released on or after October 26, 2007, it can't use the 10.5.0 retail installer.
If the MacBook Pro was released on or after November 15, 2007, it can't use the 10.5.1 retail installer.
If the MacBook Pro was released on or after June 30, 2008, it can't use the 10.5.4 retail installer.
If the MacBook Pro was released on or after January 2009, it can't use the 10.5.6 retail installer.
If the MacBook Pro was released before October 26, 2007, it must use the retail 10.5 installers to install 10.5.
Otherwise it can only use the installer discs which shipped with it to install 10.5.
* is the retail installer disc label, which in fine print will say the update version of 10.5 included with that disc.
If you are missing the discs that came with the machine, and you bought the machine from an authorized service center contact AppleCare for replacement discs at a nominal fee.
Otherwise contact the seller, who should have given you the discs when he sold you the machine.
The discs include iLife, and a hardware test that you can't otherwise get with the retail installer discs for Leopard alone. A bundled iLife/Leopard 10.5.6 exists today called the Mac Box Set.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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