I can not install Mac OS from installer DVD?

I want to do a clean install of Snow Leopard and upgrade to Lion and none of my DVD's will complete a full install.  Installer DVDs from 10.5 even have this problem.  The installer process starts but when the computer restarts, the computer stops at the gray apple logo.  This happens for all the installer DVDs that I have.  I have a 2009 MacBook Pro.  I have tried installing from an external dvd player.  I have even tried copying the installer DVD to a flash drive, hard drive and dvd copy.  All my media is in perfect condition.  So it is not an internal DVD problem.  Does anyone know if this might be a motherboard problem?  Has any one else had this problem?

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