IMac w/OS 10.3, how can I install Classic?

I'm sure you all get this question constantly, and I'm so sorry to be a broken record, but here goes...
I bought my mom a slot-loading indigo iMac, refurbished, from our local Apple certified repair and resell shop. It came with OS 10.3 pre-installed, but no Classic environment and, of course, no disks.
I would like to have some version of OS 9 on it to run some older apps that my aged parent apparently cannot be happy without. Today I popped in my retail copy of OS 10.4 which has OS 9.2 on it, but I'll be darned the iMac wouldn't read the DVD at all and spit it back out at me. The nervy little Mac! I wasn't trying to boot with the disk either.
Sooo, I poked around the dusty studio and found a retail copy of OS 10.1. In the box was a copy of OS 9.1 that shipped with 10.1.
What is my best plan of attack to get Classic on this little iMac without compromising the existing OS 10.3? I'm nervous about messing up 10.3 because I can't reinstall it. I personally jumped from 10.1 to 10.4, and failed to buy 10.3, darnitall. I read in another post the option of making a copy of an existing 9.2 system folder, which I can do from this my trusty dual G4 running 10.4 and 9.2. Does that actually work, and do I only need the 9 system folder? Or are there other mysterious files in obscure locations that also need to copy over?
Waiting with bated breath for your replies!
Sincerely,
Diane H K

Insert the Mac OS 9.1 CD, restart the computer with the C key held down, locate the hard disk in the Finder, open the folders System, Library, and look at the CoreServices folder. If that item has a smiling Mac icon, drag the item System inside it to the desktop. Either way, install Mac OS 9 normally, and if you moved that item, put it in its original location.
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