G5 won't take new installation disc

Hi everyone,
I was recently sold a Powermac G5 with Leopard installed, but with no disc included. Go figure, I have been running into some problems with the computer locking up on me. Anyway, I searched the problem in the forums and found people that were having the same issue and they told me to buy a new installation disc, so I went ahead and bought Leopard for a whopping $130 bucks. I just put the disc in the computer, but it keeps spitting it out. Any reason why it's not taking?? It's really frustrating! Thanks.

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whereas Mac Pros look like
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