Help - G4 dinosaur

I hope you can help. A friend of mine had her PC die (evil grin) so she started up a Power Mac G4 she has (not the one with shiny doors). She's pretty literate on both but can't figure out what is going on with the Mac and neither can I.
The G4 has OS 10.1 which I am not familiar with. When she turned it on it switched to OS9 on her the second she tried to get on the Internet (it had Explorer 5.something). She tried to download a new browser. Safari, Firefox, etc. but none would download due to the browser she was using. I burned a CD with some browsers for her but the Mac says it doesn't recognize the .dmg files.
Fine, frustrated she went and bought Leopard, clicked clean install, and got a 'can't read this CD' or some such message which basically has totally stopped her in her tracks. She has more than enough memory and her system requirements are fine but it seems like this thing just won't let her upgrade.
Of course she can't get on the Internet to find info and all of her books relate to the older OS. I haven't been able to find anything I can figure out for her.
Any ideas of how she can get this machine up and running before she goes back to the darkside?

MJWrites, welcome to Apple Discussions.
If the Mac is booted in OS 9, Safari & Firefox can't be used. These are OS X browsers. Also these browsers may require an OS X higher than 10.1. OS X uses .dmg (disk images).
I switched to Mozilla for OS 9 & like it better than IE. It works on web pages that IE has problems with. Plus, Mozilla has a pop-up ad blocker & a password manager. Download Wamcom's Mozilla browser at:
http://wamcom.org/latest-131/
 Cheers, Tom

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