How Do I: Make a bootable FW or USB drive which I can install from?

I was at our local Apple store yesterday after my wife's Macbook decided not to like the 10.5 install disk that came with it. It would make it to about 7% and then error-out and message us that we needed to clean the disk. Multiple times. So I brought it in and the nice Genius had a drive which had 10.4, 10.5 , Drive Genius and more on it. He was able to run Disk Utility from it as well as boot from it and install from it.
I have multiple drives floating around, too small to be of much use and log ago replaced with larger drives.
We have three Macs and two versions of OSX. This would be very nice rather than digging out the disks.
I know I can install to a FW or USB drive and boot from it, but how do I go about installing from an external drive?

Note that the restored HD partition version of the installer DVD will still be writable, unlike the DVD itself, which is inherently read only. This should not be a problem unless something either corrupts its files or adds something that interferes with the operation of the DVD version of the OS* (which is stripped down & contains some small differences in the component files it shares with the standard version).
For this reason, you should not mount the partition unless you need to use it and/or unmount it when not in use.
* By "the DVD version of the OS," I mean the OS that boots the Mac to run the installer, not the OS version it installs.

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