Cannot downgrade to 10.3 or boot from 10.3 CD

OK, here is my situation.
I have a Powerbook G4 running OS X 10.4.6. I want to downgrade to 10.3 Panther. The Powerbook shipped with Panther, and I upgraded to Tiger at a later date.
I put in the Panther CD in the drive, restart, and the computer simply locks up. I get the chimes, the Apple logo appears on the screen, then it "jumps" over about a centimeter on the screen, with some black lines around it, and the computer stops responding. I have to restart the machine. Rebooting and holding down C results in the same effect. I can reboot into 10.4 normally, but that's it.
I've verified the disk permissions, and rebooted into single-user move and used fsck to try to repair the disk.
I don't know what else to do to try to get this to work... I only have one disk partition, and it's the startup volume, so I can't erase the disk with Disk Utility, and I can't boot from CD.
So... any ideas or help, please?
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I thought so. You don't have the right version. Your friend's disc won't work. You need either the original installer disc that came with the computer or a retail version of Panther at version 10.3.8 or 10.3.9.
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