I Can"t restart my G4 PPC after trying to reinstall OSX 10.46?????

Hi there everyone,
Can someone please help.
I am unable to restart my classic G4 desktop after trying to restore a disk image to it. I used it as a target disk and was told that the restoration was successful. I used to have Tiger 10.4.8 installed , but was told by Apple that the files were corrupt, and so had to pay a lot of money on ebay for a 10.4.6 installation disk. This installed O.K and I was able to start the machine. I then started in target mode and restored the original disk image from my laptop using disk utility erasing the target disk. It said the restoration was successful, but now when I try to start up the computer it comes up with the white apple startup screen, whizzes around for a while and then switches itself back off. I have tried starting up from the installation disk but that does not work (neither pressing the C or D keys at startupmake any differrence).

Hi, other than an Archive & Install, which gives you a new OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Just be sure to select Preserve Users & Settings.
Your best bet is DiskWarrior, you need the CD/DVD though.
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
But others that may work…
Drive Genius …
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius.php
TechTool Pro …
http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=83
BTW, you might enjoy these DiskWarrior review/recommendations...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9645801&#9645801
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10541019#10541019
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11918925&#11918925

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