How to reinstall OS without a functioning CD Drive

I just got a Quicksilver tower and I sloppily copied my laptop's system into the Tower's. Now it won't start up (giving me the system folder with question mark icon). Problem is, the cd drive on the tower isn't working. I took it apart and the gears just aren't cooperating. I forced it open and shoved the OS DVD into it, but it won't read it when I hold 'c' down while it restarts.
I do have an external CD drive, but it doesn't read DVD's.
I tried connecting the Quicksilver to my laptop using firewire (target disk mode) hoping I could choose the tower's HD as the install drive, but the tower isn't connecting.... I'm guessing because it's doesn't have the proper system information.
What in the world can I do?
Thanks for any help,
-Clayton
G4 Tower 933mhz/Powerbook G4 1.33ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   OS DVD is 10.4.6/laptop is running 10.4.8

Clayton,
Spend the £20 it will cost you to get a new internal DVD drive, preferably one that the Mac OS supports and that you can burn CD / DVD on.
The pain and suffering this will save you over the lifetime of the G4 tower is worth it, believe me.

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