Cannot start up from a CD

I have attempted starting up my computer from two serarate startup CDs. One is the Mac OS X 10.4 Startup DVD and the other is a Diskwarrior 4 CD. The OS was installed from this disk and has repaired parts of the hard drive a few times (the computer is not new). Now when I put in either of the disks and startup while holding down the "C" key OR after selecting it under Startup Disk Preferences the computer simply does not boot. (it does not even restart when pressing the restart button in the startup disk Prefs, it does however restart normally).
Any Ideas/help would be, well, helpful. (Is there a terminal prompt I could do while in verbose mode?)
thanks
-Teh Beebles

I have a similar problem, but my G4 will boot from CD but not boot to 10.4.
I have a G4/533 DP (Dig Aud). Currently have 10.3.9. Thinking I should see if 10.4 is worth the tax on my processors, so upgrade...... I have OSX 10.4 DVD. I also borrowed a copy of 10.4 server:client from the jr college to test.
When I try to install 10.4 my G4 refuses to boot from optical drive.
I updated firmware per Apple to 4.2.8f1. Still won't boot to a CD or DVD with 10.4 (including DiskWar 3.03, 4).
Recently my optical drive started ejecting during start up. I think this is something that DA's start doing when the on-board ATA controller goes bad. I have an ATA 100/133 controller card that runs my 200 and 250 GB drives, so I tried plugging both the original Apple DVD-ROM drive and my Pioneer 109 into the second channel. The eject-during-start-up stopped, but the computer will not boot to 10.4. It WILL boot to 10.3 install CDs and to DiskWarrior 3.02. It will even boot to a 9.0.4 install CD.
If I try to manually select a 10.4 disk in the Startup Disk prefs pane, the screen does the side-side shake (like wrong password during log-in) and beeps.
A G4 should support 10.4. Any one have a clue?
G4/533 Dual   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   Pioneer DVR-109 (firmware updated from 1.1 on a WinTel to 1.5)

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