Cannot boot from Tiger retail DVD on my G3 iMac

I just got a G3 iMAC 500MHz DV SE slot loading, it has 256+512 MB of Memory and 60 GB Hard disk. Firmware is 4.1.9
When I first got the machine it didn't have an OS so I loaded Tiger on it, with no problems. after a couple of restarts I started getting Kernel Panic right at power up. First it was every now and then but it became consistent later.
So as a solution I thought maybe zapping the PRAM would help (That was a mistake). After Zapping the PRAM I could not load into Tiger at all not from the retail DVD nor the Tiger installed on the HDD. What happens: the computer starts to load you can hear the DVD working it goes into the grey screen with the spinning gear and then eventually the greay apple is replaced with a circle and line across it.
I tried everything, resetting the PMU, zapping the PRAM again, replacing the battery to no avail.
So finally I installed OS 9.2 back, and that was vey smooth, I erased the HDD and did a clean install of OS 9.2, did the update to 9.2.2. Then I tried again with the Tiger DVD, same thing it starts to boot from it and then it stops at the same place.
What is driving me nuts is that I installed Tiger on the same machine from the same DVD 3 days ago, it only stopped working after I zapped the PRAM. What the heck!!!
Any advice would be appreciated, right now I am running 9.2.2 on it no problems...
Thanks..

Since your firmware is up to date, your problem is probably bad RAM. Often RAM that works fine with OS 9 will cause problems with OSX. Try with just the original Apple RAM (it will be slow, but OSX should still run). If it works, you may be able to test one of those lifetime RAM warrantees.
Have you run the Extended test from the Apple Hardware Test disk? It doesn't find all errors, but if it says something is bad, believe it.

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[Apple docs: What's a kernel panic? (Mac OS X)|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227]
[Topic : kmosx: Kernel Panics? Don't panic too !|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121923]
[X-Lab: Resolving Kernel Panics|http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html]
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