ILife "Bundled Software Cannot Be Installed" on Leopard Upgrade Error

I had to do a clean install of Leopard after the installation stopped midway through the first time. It was successful the 2nd time.
Ilife was of course missing so I put back in my Tiger install disk that came with the computer (2.16 GHZ Mac Book Pro 17", 2GB 667m DDR2 SDRAM) clicked on "Install Bundled Software Only" to get ILife and I get the error "Bundled Software Cannot Be Installed on this computer. Make sure your system meets the requirements"
How do I get around this?
What could be causing it?

I think I did the Erase and install.
Basically I tried to upgrade to Leopard. The upgrade did not work and got stuck in the middle. I was worried about getting everything off my hard drive. I was able to remove the files I wanted but then when I put back in the disk to do the install I had to do the option where it would erase everything on the disk.
So that is why I'm confused as to why it is saying I can't put ILife on leopard.
It seems like everything should be ready to go.
Would it make a difference if I'm using my twin brother's installation disk instead of mine? I never thought of that until now but our disks are all in one spot and I could have grabbed his but I doubt that's the problem.

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mackidd13 wrote:
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I have all of the cds it came with...
I have 2 gray CDs - it says it's iMac G5 Mac OS X Install Disc 1, *Mac OS version 10.4*, AHT version 2.5.1.
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process but stops because I do not have OS 10.3 installed. This CD is black with an
X and says *Mac OS X Tiger* Includes Xcode 2,
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