Help with botched Tiger install from failed 10.5 upgrade

I had Tiger on my Macbook then a mate lent me his OSx 10.5.6 installation disc. Big mistake!
I loaded this new OS on the Macbook but the iMail wouldn't work.
I then went back to my Apple-purchased 10.4.8 installation discs and tried to reload OSx 10.4.8, following the on-screen instructions for going back to 10.4 from 10.5.
Disc 1 of the 10.4.8 loaded fine but was then asked for disc 2 which I loaded. The Install Prog read and loaded from this second disc but the install failed with the error message: "There were errors installing the software, please try again".
The only option I have is to click CLOSE
In doing so, the Mac reboots then opens up again on the Install Prog box that asks me insert Mac OSX Install Disc 2.
I am trapped in this loop and cannot get out!
How do I fix this and either go to OSX 10.4 or my mates OSX 10.5???!
HELP!!!

When I tried to do exactly what you said, I got the error message "Public can't be modified or deleted because it is required by Mac OS X. The only thing I could find in my old Username Public folder was Dropbox and seeing as I never really used this, not having the contents on my rebuilt Macbook isn't really a worry for me.
I got the same error message when I tried to copy over all the other folders too.
So I opened each folder in question and copied over the contents of each folder to the contents, i.e. old version to new version (often I had to open sub-folders to copy contents over to sub-folders because I kept getting the "...can't be modified of deleted because it is required by Mac OS X" error message).
When I'd finished doing this, the folder Oldusername in /Previous Systems.localized/Previous System 1/User still has 4.23GB of stuff in it that I can't copy over but when I looked into the remaining stuff in Old User I found a massive amount of stuff in the Downloads folder which I won't miss.
I then rebooted and crossed my fingers...
FANTASTIC - my Desktop data returned and EVERYTHING SEEMS GREAT!!!
Just to be on the safe side, I ran REPAIR DISK PERMISSIONS on the parent 186.3 GB Toshiba disc on the left hand side of the Disk Utility and then rebooted again.
THANK YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH!!! Phew!!!
So both my Macbook and my iMac are now running the same version of Mac OS X 10.5.8
However, why is it that the Mail on my Macbook allows me to open Preferences no problem at all but the Mail on my iMac won't let me do this??? This is a real pain as I want to add a new account to my iMac Mail as well as alter some signatures and set up some new rules.
Any suggestions?
I'm running Mail version 3.6...

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