HELP installation disk is not accepted on imac g-5 1,9ghz

I am despret my drive is working and I just brought the 3 in one set of ilfe09 iwork09 and mac os x .5.6 but for some reason the disk is ejected while the i work and i life disk is accepted please someone help I am going nuts does this have to do with this ver i mac does not have the capibility of installing osx 10.5.6 ? urgent HELP NEEDED

No, but the drive could be. Since you have multiple computers here's links on how to install on one computer, using the DVD drive in another computer through Target Disk Mode. Don't worry that the links refer to Tiger.
[How to use FireWire target disk mode|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583] includes description of hardware and software requirements.
[Installing OS X 10.4 'Tiger' on DVD-Challenged Macs Using FireWire Target Disk Mode|http://lowendmac.com/misc/06/0710.html]
[Installing Tiger Without a DVD Drive|http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2005/05/thecats_mustachesinstalling.html]
[How To: Installing Tiger Using FireWire Target Disk Mode|http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/osx_odyssey_752_how_to_installing_tiger_using_firewire_target_diskmode>

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