Having major issues getting 10.5 installed on top of 10.4

hello fellow mac users. I wanted to know if anyone besides me has ran across this issue specifically, or if you've heard of a solution maybe you can give me a hand. I am currently on the last version of Tiger (10.4.11). Here is my problem. There is a mac in my office at work so I tried to update to Leopard from the drop in DVD but every time the install disc went to look for OS X 10.4, it said that it could not be found. So I called Apple, went through some diagnostics on my mac, everything passed fine, but would still have the same problem. I eventually got passed up to a higher technician and their only suggestion was to reinstall Tiger (which I did). That still didn't fix the problem. So I thought the problem was my mac didn't like that particular DVD. So last week I ordered 10.5 from welovemacs.com and got it in today and same problem. The install DVD cannot find 10.4 so 10.5 can be installed. I'm going to make an appointment for the local Apple Store on Saturday, but thought I would try my luck here first just to see what came of it. thanks so much!
ryan

Welcome to the Apple boards.
Drop-in DVDs are hardware specific. Are you using a Leopard DVD on the office machine that came with it?
Welovemacs is not an authorized Apple reseller:
http://wheretobuy.apple.com/Catalog.html
so your DVD may be suspect.
Is it Leopard 1.5.1 or .2? New retail DVDs are no longer 10.5.0
Is it an update or "up-to-date" DVD or a full retail install DVD?

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