EMac won't read OS 10.4 install disc

We're attempting to upgrade the OS of our living room eMac. I just picked up a used OS 10.4 install set; it's a set of 16 CDs rather than a DVD, and it's specifically made for eMac (it even says "eMac" right on the discs).
Problem is, when we pop in Disc 1, either it's ejected automatically after a minute, or the disc sits inside while the drive spins its gears, so to speak. We don't even get a CD icon on the desktop. We've tried restarting the computer holding down the "C" button (as suggested on the disc), but all this produced is a gray screen that holds for several minutes before finishing the startup sequence as usual.
Any input, folks?

You have enough RAM for 10.4. It would be useful if it said why it can't install on that machine.
(That the Intel Macbook would not list the PPC G4 as a startup disk is expected, as they are generations apart).
It sounds like you have reached the end. The only remarkable item to note is the first eMac (being the 700 Mhz, your model), according to Mactracker can only have a maximum OS of 10.4.11 whereas all of the other later model eMacs can go high as 10.5.8.
Still your 10.4 disk should work you ask, so why not? Maybe the difference is your NVIDIA GeForce2 video card (as compared to the ATI Radeon cards in all the later eMacs) which is not playing ball with your 10.4 upgrade disk.
I don't know, but that is the only main difference I can see and so may be the reason, and the video cards are not upgradable.
Given that it is an apparently grey disk and therefore model specific, it appears that it is not suited to your model eMac, though would probably work with the other later models. This is half supposition, half theory and zero consolation.
But this is technology. Today I bought a digital to analogue TV converter (for my TV) which works fine, except the USB recordable output refuses to recognize any USB device I plug into it. Yes, I can get digital TV, but that I can't record it makes me feel I just wasted $80.
Ah! Constantly changing technology plays us on a string!
So if the 10.4 installer disk can't work with your eMac EPROM chip, there is nothing you can do unfortunately.
My best tip is, that old but useful Mac software (e.g 10.4) is more valuable than old Mac hardware.
People get stuck on the hardware because it is that thing that sits on the desk, and to make an analogy that is like the body and they think that is real.
But what matters is the animating spirit which is the software. The body does not matter. Checking secondhand prices tends to confirm this. Old software holds its value but old Macs that once cost thousands can now be bought for next to nothing. When it comes to a Mac OS, it is the OS part that counts, not the Mac.
As I can't offer you any technical assistance, please accept some original philosophy as a consolation.

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    0x55ae3748 : 0x5d22e824 (0x5d40892c 0x5d469d20 0x5d413bf0 0x0)
    0x55ae37e8 : 0x5da392ba (0x851e004 0x6f85004 0x9410 0x5d31b09e)
    0x55ae3828 : 0x5daeefa4 (0x6f85004 0x9410 0x55ae3888 0x9)
    0x55ae3868 : 0x5d3a85c8 (0x6f85004 0x841d004 0x0 0x0)
    0x55ae3888 : 0x5d31ec58 (0x841d004 0x55ae39c4 0x0 0x0)
    0x55ae38d8 : 0x5da21eb9 (0x6f85004 0x3d0900 0x55ae39c4 0x0)
    0x55ae39f8 : 0x5d31020a (0x6f85004 0x853dc04 0x87c500c 0x200)
    0x55ae3a38 : 0x5d3795f7 (0x6f85004 0x853dc04 0x834a024 0x834a004)
    0x55ae3ae8 : 0x5d37a94f (0x6f85004 0x853d004 0x0 0x0)
    0x55ae3b78 : 0x5da20e19 (0x6f85004 0x853d004 0x6 0x2)
    0x55ae3bf8 : 0x5da295df (0x6f85004 0x853dc04 0x1000 0x55ae3d0c)
    0x55ae3d68 : 0x5daaefe4 (0x6f85004 0x853dc04 0x0 0x0)
    0x55ae3e98 : 0x5d330f35 (0x6f85004 0x851e404 0x0 0x0)
    0x55ae3ec8 : 0x5d237a0f (0x6f85004 0x851e404 0x0 0x0)
    0x55ae3f08 : 0x548049 (0x0 0x8549500 0x1 0x29b50a)
    0x55ae3f58 : 0x54707a (0x8549500 0x863ec0 0x0 0x29f596)
    0x55ae3f88 : 0x5474d4 (0x80c1dc0 0x863ec0 0x0 0xffffffff)
    0x55ae3fc8 : 0x29c68c (0x80c1dc0 0x0 0x10 0x6d9d3c4)
    Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
    com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(6.0.0)@0x5d934000->0x5dda6fff
    dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.0.0)@0x5d1d7000
    com.apple.NVDAResman(6.0.0)@0x5d1d7000->0x5d46afff
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x558bb000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.0)@0x5c4c0000
    dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.0)@0x5c5fb000
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    Mac OS version:
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    Kernel version:
    Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386
    System model name: MacBookPro4,1 (Mac-F42C86C8)
    System uptime in nanoseconds: 1069282333804
    unloaded kexts:
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    loaded kexts:
    com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.2d0 - last loaded 90181349778
    com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.0.5
    com.apple.DontSteal_Mac_OSX 7.0.0
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    com.apple.GeForce 6.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 1.7.4a1
    com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.4.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.0.2
    com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.0d4
    com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 161
    com.apple.driver.ACPISMCPlatformPlugin 3.4.0a20
    com.apple.kext.AppleSMCLMU 1.4.5d1
    com.apple.driver.DiskImages.ReadWriteDiskImage 281
    com.apple.driver.DiskImages.RAMBackingStore 281
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    com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.5.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.5.0
    com.apple.BootCache 31
    com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
    com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx 410.91.20
    com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.3.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 3.7.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.0
    com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2 3.1.14b1
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 3.7.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 3.7.5
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.3.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 160.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3
    com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 90.0.0
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    com.apple.security.quarantine 0
    com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.0.11
    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 90.0.0
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction 10
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction 14
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction 10
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction 10
    com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction 20
    com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 73.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.2f18
    com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.2
    com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 1.7.4a1
    com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.7.0fc16
    com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
    com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 6.0.0
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    com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 40
    com.apple.driver.DiskImages.KernelBacked 281
    com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch 200.20
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 3.7.5
    com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.2f18
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    com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.2f18
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    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass 2.5.0
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    com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6
    com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.6
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    com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.0
    com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 300.20
    com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.1.7
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 3.7.5
    com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.0
    com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 1.8
    com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 3.7.8
    com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.3.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.6.0
    com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
    com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 6
    com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
    com.apple.driver.DiskImages 281
    com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.6
    com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.3
    com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6
    com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.3.0
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    USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x820f, 0x1a110000
    USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0230, 0x5d200000
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