Help installing Mac OS X Tiger from Panther 10.3.9

I'm using a iMac 700MHz PowerPC G4, flat screen kind, with 512 MD SDRAM currently running 10.3.9 Panther. It has a CD/DVD-Rom drive so it can normally read them. However, when I insert the install DVD, a message would pop up saying that "The disk could not be burned (for whatever reason)" and would list the error code of "0x80020043". Now, as I'm sure you all know, the Tiger install disc is a read-only DVD. So why will it not read it and allow me to run the installer for Tiger?
My iMac used to be able to play DVD Movies as well, but something happened to the DVD-ROM drive so that the DVD Player won't even work. Is there some way I can fix just that issue to get the Tiger disc working or do I have to go through a big complicated restoration mess?

This is kind of odd, going back and forth between my posts... Anyway, it doesn't say Drop-in Upgrade DVD, just the CPU Drop In DVD.
If this helps: the iLife '05 Install DVD, the plain ol' Install DVD won't work either. We get the same error code. 0x80020043, or numbers similar to that. I think those are the exact ones. Our Mac thinks that I'm trying to burn stuff to the disk, but I'm not and they're obviously read-only disks.
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