I've lost my install discs... What can I do? .

So, on my way home with my computer several stops were made, and during one of them, a bag was dropped unnoticed. Problem is it contained the install discs for the computer (specs at the bottom of my note).
Can someone tell me if it will be possible to purchase new discs from apple? I absolutely need them because when the computer was being set up (transferring data), my cousin "replaced" my font book with the one from my other G4 (800mhz/10.4.11), thinking the fonts would carry over.
Now I can't open the font book at all, which means that I can't install new fonts for my photoshop program. I get an error message saying, *"You cannot use the application "Font Book" with this version of OSX."*
If anyone has any suggestions on where I can buy restore discs for my G4 or how I can fix my font book application, I'd really appreciate it.

Okay, but will that reinstall my font book? The person I bought my computer from had leo already installed. I offered to buy the master disc
from him (the disc he used on my computer), but he wouldn't sell. Instead, he just gave me a burned copy "in case I ran into trouble". Luckily,
that was in my purse, but the others discs were in a separate bag and were lost.
I'm not having any issue with anything except my fonts. Someone suggested using Pacifist to remove the font book from the install disc,
but I don't have the ones that came with the computer anymore.
Do you know if the font book can be extracted from the leopard disc?
(Forgive me if my questions seem silly, but I'm not savvy at all.)

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