Erased Hard Drive, Now Can't Install OS

Hi all,
I'm selling my Powerbook G4 15", and was asked to erase the hard drive and reinstall the system.
I put the PB into firewire disk mode, opened Disk Utility in my new computer, and erased the disk.
I then put my OS 10.3 Install disk into the PB, but was unable to start up. Instead of getting to the install menu, I get the white screen and gray apple; the apple logo then "shifts" a few pixels to the right and down, and the computer hangs there without doing anything.
I put the PB back into firewire disk mode, popped the install disk into my other computer, and tried to install that way. The install menu then told me that I couldn't install onto the targeted PB drive, since "An earlier version of OS X is not installed."
One more caveat: I am missing the original system restore disk for the PB. I have the second disk, but haven't been able to find the first. I figured since I had all the os 10.3 disks it wouldn't matter.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi,
I'm not 100% positive, but I'm pretty sure that the computer either came with 10.3 installed. It's only about two years old.
Other things I've tried, with little success, are using the startup volume choice mode to try and select the os 10.3 disk to start off of (it doesn't show any volumes to choose) and resetting the PRAM (still get the flashing question mark folder on start up without the system cd in and the dislocated apple logo with the cd in).

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