I'm having a hard time booting from external drive to rewrite everything on new internal drive

I got this Powerbook used w/o any startup or software disks. It has some valuable software on it. It is over 7 years old and I want to put the system and all software and other files on a new internal hard drive. I bought two Western Digital drives to accomplish this but have been unable so far. I have used SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner to successfully write everything onto the external drive after partitioning it Apple Partition Map. Neither Other World Computing (where I got the drives) or Western Digital have been of any use at all with advice. When I have the new clean drive in the Mac and the external connected by firewire and turn the Mac on while holding down the Option key all I get is a blank screen with a circular arrow and a right-pointing arrow and a mouse pointer. Clicking on either does nothing. If it is not possible to do it this way then can you suggest an alternate route?
My system: Powerbook G4 OSX 10.5.8 1.5GHz PowerPC.
New internal hard drive: WD 160GB Scorpio Blue.
External drive: same but the connector is for use only in an enclosure.
Wiring available: firewire or USB

I have been making a flash form lately that works fine. The
form validates, focuses on first field on access, tab focuses,
displays error messages, you can use your enter key to reset ot
submit it, and of course sends the data to a server (script, php,
or any script you have).
I can send you the complete fla file if you wish. Email me
please.
Robert
[email protected]

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