Cube will not boot... what the heck?

I bought a cube yesterday and it will not boot. This is what has happened so far:
New hdd
installed Tiger
ran updates
restarted
ran more updates
restarted
would not load fully.
Got to Mac OS X loading screen with varying degrees of success, but it always stops loading and the blue bar freezes. Single user startup works. Safe mode a no-go. Fsck finds nothing wrong with disk. I can't eject the disc that's in there no way no how in order to reinstall OS.
Another oddity: Target disk mode says the disk is unreadable, and says it's 7.1 GB when it's 38 GB. If I initialize the 7 gig bit nothing happened.
I put the drive into an external firewire case and reformatted it but I still cannot get the DVD drive to eject.
What the heck? This puppy passed all the tests yesterday just fine! It was ready to rock and roll until this happened! I am very frustrated! Please tell me my 300 bucks wasn't wasted... I need this computer for my business.
The only thing that I realized might be wrong is that the HDD was in master mode when I first put it in. The drive I removed was in Slave mode (this was the factory drive). I have tried to boot it up in both CS and Slave mode and neither one works.

Hi! Try holding down the mouse button at startup to see if you can get the disc out. You made a calculated mistake that went wrong.
"New hdd
installed Tiger
ran updates
restarted
ran more updates
restarted
would not load fully."
You probably used Software Update to update the software and sometimes it doesn't work. You should get the install disc back in and then try an archive and install of the os. Don't run any updates until you are sure the system is stable. After you are sure it's stable you can download the 10.4.11 update HERE instead of using Software Update. Tom
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