For the blue screen at Leopard install, this tech report works for me

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857
I used the second "solution" and my system booted properly after typing in the command lines mentioned in the article.
Good luck

Restart your computer with the original install disk in the drive. Hold down on the "d" key. This will startup the computer into the Apple Hardware Test. If you can't enter the Apple Hardware Test, you have some kind of hardware failure (with the logic board or maybe with the optical drive). You should call AppleCare Support to set-up a repair. If you can get the AHT to run, go through the extended tests and see if you get an error message. If you do, again, you should call AppleCare Support and get a repair scheduled. Let them know the exact error code you saw with the AHT. If you can run the AHT and no error appears, this does not completely rule-out a hardware failure, only a failure that the utility is looking for. Let us know what you find out.
-Doug

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