IMac G4 Booting Problem

After 6 years of trouble-free service, my iMac (17" G4, 1.25 Ghz) won't boot past the gray screen with the apple and the spinning ball. It was running on 10.5.8. I've tried everything I could find in the Apple troubleshooting articles, including resetting the PRAM and PMU and booting in safe mode. I was able to access the hard drive from my MacBook Pro via target disk mode. I ran the disc utility program, and the hard drive is apparently in working order. I would like to try to boot from the Leopard disk or the original Panther disk, but I can't get the disc tray to open. When I try to boot with "c" (or shift) held down, I just get a loud beep before the computer proceeds to the gray screen and spinning wheel, where it remains indefinitely. What does this mean? What else can I try?

To get the tray to open, try holding down the mouse button at initial startup.
If you have not already, you can try starting up with the Option key held down. This will give you Startup Manager. If the internal drive volume is listed as a valid choice, select it and try to continue. See if that method works any better.
If you are not able to start up that way or in Safe Mode, it sounds like a key system component became corrupted. Fortunately, it also seems like the drive is still accessible, so it is probably not a hardware problem. I would use FireWire target disk mode as you have already, and back up your personal user data. Then, startup from your Leopard installation disc, run Disk Utility from Installer's Utilities menu. In Disk Utility, select the internal drive in the sidebar (not the volume indented under the drive). Go to the Erase tab and erase (reformat) the internal drive; name the volume +Macintosh HD+ (if you want to use the standard name) and set the format to +Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Obviously, this will erase the volume.
After the erase completes (it should take less than one minute), quit Disk Utility to go back to Installer. Run a standard installation onto the internal drive.
NOTE: You said you had Leopard on it, so if you were using Time Machine, you can use the utility to restore the complete system from your Time Machine backup archive. Then, you will be back in business to within one hour of the failure time. Please post back if you need more details on how to do this with Time Machine.

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