Install disc doesn't appear -- FW 800

I've seen some similar topics to my problem, but nothing that really describes what's happening to me, so I apologize if there's a solution I just wasn't able to find on the forums.
I've got a G4 FW800, which should be within the specs to install Leopard (and I've even seen a post from someone with a similar machine who had a post-install problem, so I know it's possible!). My issue is that my drive doesn't recognize the install disc at all. Once I got Leopard and ran into this problem, I tried other CDs, DVDs and DVD-ROMs, and they all showed up normally. But this is as if there isn't even a disc in the drive. No error message, no problems restarting, etc., like others have had.
I've tried holding down the C key while restarting, and nothing happened. It just went to my regular login off the hard drive. So, I exchanged it, thinking it was likely defective.
New disc has almost the same problems, but it was slightly better one time. I had System Profiler open and was looking at my optical drive. It showed a disc in there with the proper name and everything, but it never appeared on my desktop. But that only happened once. Every subsequent time, that doesn't even show up.
There is also another minor difference with the new disc. Now, when I try starting up by holding the C key, it simply holds on the grey Apple screen forever until I finally give up and release the C key. Before, it seemed to believe more that there wasn't even a disc in the drive.
I have no other Mac available to try this on, and so I don't believe I can round up the hardware to attempt to install it on a hard drive and then install that on my Mac. But if I could find someone with an external optical drive, would that work? I thought I saw something somewhere where that could be an issue if I'm not using my original drive.
Is there anything else I can try? I saw a thread where some Mac Book users were finding success turning their computers upside down, but that's obviously not an option with my tower!
If it's some weird issue with my optical drive, is it possible to get CDs of Leopard, seeing as how I forked out the money for the OS already?
Let me know what you folks think. Thanks!

Hi Kenstrom,
Thanks for posting - I've been searching, without success, for a solution to a sim. scenario. Perhaps if I describe the torture this has generated as an Xmas present someone might come up with a solution. Before doing so, let me say when I'm waiting for the disk image to appear, I have to wait a LONG time. My Background: I've been around macs as a professional programmer since my first Mac+ in 1984 so I have some experience with the platform(s).
My machine: FW 800 - Dual 1.35 GHz, 768 Mb RAM - so on target according to the specs.
[I also have a (work) Intel 1.83 Gb Dual w. 512Mb RAM which has already been upgraded to Lep.5.0.which (following the description below, I used to test the installation DVD on for 'integrity' or whatever A. calls it) and it is fine.]
So all is legit..... Then,
- I insert the DVD in the drive and it appears on the desktop. Click on Install and the machine shuts down and then can't seem to find the boot block or something on the DVD and just hangs. (grey screen, twirling spokes)
- reboot, reinsert DVD and then set the boot disk to the DVD- Click on Install to the same outcome.
- reboot holding down option key and select the DVD to boot from. System hangs similarly.
- once during multiple repeats with slight variations I managed to get the Install started. It got half-way through the install and then it 'got stuck' and installation failed. This destroyed the previous system. I threw caution to the wind and reformatted the HD, thinking that might have helped. No luck: Same problems. So now I have an idling machine waiting for a solution.
I suspect there is something wrong w. the CDD drive trying to read the DVD. I'm guessing that the reason the install failed was that the screensaver/powersaver options switched themselves in - i didn't disable them - surely A. would turn them off before an install? I don't have a spare/external DVD player but I suppose that might be a possible solution. I would have thought A. would have tested all combinations of HW/SW install that it lists as possible. Perhaps not...
At the moment my partner from whom this was a Xmas gift - is muttering about sticking to her windose machine - and I was trumpeting the new dual OS tools!
good luck - if anyone finds a solution please post ref. here.

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