Install CD will not boot..... please help

I have a G4 with cd/dvd drive, using os9.2... I just purchased Tiger osx v10.4 and I can't get the disk to boot... no matter what I do.... what can I do? Thanks for any feed back. Mary
G4   Mac OS 9.2.x  

Any resolution on this? I have a weird situation. I upgraded my dual 450 to a powerlogix 2.0 GHZ which proceeded to freeze then subsequently trash my 10.4 based system.
I rebooted using an emergency CD boot disk that I had made while using 10.3. Diskwarrior hung scanning for disks.
I then decided to reinstall the system, but the 10.4 install DVDwould freeze the system at boot time.
I took out the new processor and put everything back the way it was before crash-time, except for the firmware level which I kept at4.2.8f1.
Still no-go on booting the orginal 10.4 disk or the Tiger install dvd.
So, how about 10.3? Same thing. It freezes the system at the apple white/gray screen that you get early on in the boot-up stage.
So, what about 10.2? I still had those CDs hanging around. Indeed, I was able to re-install 10.2.
I also put in an extra hard drive that I had. I copied the contents of the install DVD for Tiger to the drive and set the drive as the boot device. Same behavior - it freezes at boot time.
Funny - all but the emergency boot CD and the 10.2 install CD fail.
So, I'm stuck at 10.2.
PS: I then re-installed the 2.0 GHz CPU and it's stable.

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