Endless reboot as 9600 tries to startup on system 7.1

I had thought it'd be fun to use my old programs, in particular the game "Jump Raven," but we'd sold the Mac LC, so I attempted an install of Mac OS 7.1
This was several years ago; I pulled the Mac 9600 out of storage and tried to start it, and it keeps loading to a restart-only box, "This startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model. Use the latest Installer to update this disk for this model. (System 7.1 does not work on this model; you need a newer version that does.)
Now, system 9 is installed on the drive (9.something), but the computer has been told to try to boot up in system 7.1, which I had pulled off the internet and installed. Obviously, I should have read further to find out if the 9600 was compatible. Now I just need to redirect it to boot up on system 9.
I tried holding the mouse, which I remember from the Mac Bible (2nd or 3rd edition), but there's no actual disc to be ejected, it's installed on the hard drive. I tried option-control-p-r (?) to reset the pram, but that's not it either.
Anyone know how to get out of this endless loop?
No, I don't have my System 9 original installation cds/discs handy, I can't just re-install the OS from scratch or otherwise use those boot discs (unless they're available online).
(I own a Mac Plus, this troubled Power Macintosh 9600/350, a Titanium G4, and a Mac Pro dual-quad)

Then I opened up the Disc Tools PPC.img and dragged all the contents into the disc, ~ 1.3MB. Then I started up my 9600 with this boot disc...
In order to make sure that the boot blocks are properly reproduced, you are supposed to make a sector copy from the .img file using the "Make a Floppy" command (under the Utilities menu) in Disk Copy 6.3.3. Do not just drag-copy files from a mounted Disk Tools PPC image. See also KB article TA25969 regarding USB floppy drives. Unfortunately, you may have difficulties using Disk Copy 6.3.3 with modern systems. If necessary, try to locate a working Macintosh computer (with a built-in floppy drive) which is running Mac OS 9 or earlier for the procedure in question.
BTW, the supported operating systems are listed in the technical specifications here.
Jan

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This is a detailed bug report so please bear with me.
If you can help, or can confirm you've had the same happen to you, I'll be grateful.
I've owned several Toshiba laptops before and I even used to work for Toshiba so rest assured I like the machine. But I've got a problem with its recovery software. I just bought a laptop, Satellite L500-1DT with Windows 7 64 bit, on behalf of a non-techie who lives elsewhere. Since I know from experience that I will occasionally have to field panic calls along the lines of "it's become too slow", "how do I get rid of the accumulated junk", "maybe it's got a virus" and so on, the first thing I checked was the automatic recovery, i.e. how to bring the HD back to "as new" state.
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I am glad to report some unexpected SUCCESS!
I left the computer at what it was doing when I wrote the previous
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the reboots, though occasionally I'd hear that typical chime from the
other room, saying it was doing one more cycle) and I noticed
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