[help] new iMac +tiger

Hi,
I purchased a new iMac (24inch, 2.8ghz core2duo extreme,came with leopard) a little while ago for use with music production (pro-tools, ableton live etc.). Before this I had purchased a MacBook Pro (running tiger) for use with DJ'n and production on-the-go, making the switch from Xp.
I originally had the iMac setup with bootcamp running Win XP pro, allowing me to keep the programs I had previously used and slowly move across to a full Mac set-up.
What I didn't realise is that leopard is unsuppported still by Digidesign for my soundcard and Pro Tols LE, and most of my plug-ins are unsupported aswell. This means my MBP and Desktop aren't running the same software, so if i work on a track on my laptop , I can't move it across onto the more powerful computer which is what i was intending to do.
Anyway I decided I would try to install tiger on my iMac, so I backed up necessary files on my XP partition and used bootcamp to delete it,which somehow messed up my leopard partition aswell, leaving me with nothing.
Now I have leopard re-installed and am wishing to install Tiger on it. I have used a program call CheckUp, which tells me that the computer is capable of running tiger and I have the tiger installation disk (boxed version, but it is for PowerPC only). I have read about succesfully installing tiger on a new model iMac (through using the iMac as a firewire drive from my MBP) but am unsure how to get the correct version to work on the iMac, as it seems it needs to be updated before it can be used.
here is the link to what I had read on it http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6887285
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Shane

You cannot install the PPC version of Tiger on it you need to find an original 10.4 ALU iMac install disk. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6701696&#6701696
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