Firmware Update without Mac OS 9

I have an old Powerbook G4 15" Ti 500MHZ which I've been trying to fix since purchasing on eBay just over a year ago. The machine arrived with a major problem in that it would not recognise it's own HD after restart. So loading Tiger and any new software involved complete shut downs. After describing the problem to an assistant in an Apple shop I deduced the HD itself was the problem and decided to replace it myself with a Western Digital 120 GB Scorpio which went smoothly for a while, however the same problem of not finding an HD after restart soon came back.
Am I right in suspecting I need to update the Firmware on this model? If so, I am stimmied by the fact that I do not have Mac OS 9/Classic installed and this Firmware update will only run in that environment. I have tried loading the old CD of Mac OS 9 I still have from a previous Powerbook G3 model but of course, this won't load unless I have the Classic environment so I feel I am going round in circles: how can I load OS 9 if I don't have Classic and how can I upgrade the Firmware if I don't have OS 9/Classic!
So my question is, how can I strip down all the loaded software and start from scratch with the Mac OS 9 disc? or is it possible to go back to square one and load the Mac OS X Panther discs with Classic on them? Obviously the machine came to me with NONE of the original manuals or restore discs, so it could be this is a hopeless task, so far I have been using the original G4 software install and restore discs from my every day Ti G4 15" 1GHz.
I would appreciate a straight answer to decide whether or not to just ditch this Powerbook. The most recent problem has been trying to load the PCMCIA USB 2.0 card drive, which just doesn't register after installation, I don't know if this is because of the low processor speed of the machine or the installation requires 'restart' instead of the obligatory shut down and re boot I am reduced to right now. The same USB 2.0 card is working fine on the faster machine.
The old Powerbook serves well as a DVD player and for playing games online for my 7 year old. I recently bought eyeTV from Elgato to watch digital Tv and this works well on the faster model, using the USB 2.0 card reader, but I want to use the 500 Mhz as the second TV and I can't get it to load the USB 2.0 software. So that's why I'm trying to fix the thing!
Thanks to all who may be scratching their head with me over this!

Once you sort out why you can't install OS X reviewing Mr. Gordon's links, note that you cannot update OS 9 to OS X. All you can do is install OS X as another operating system. That allows you to either run OS 9 or OS X, with the additional ability to run Classic (most but not all of OS 9) when booted into OS X. Further, to run Classic, OS 9 should be updated to 9.2.2. Search http://search.info.apple.com/ for classic for details.

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