Install Problem: No Leopard in store Oct. 26.

With all this build up you would think Apple would have a system that assures the product gets to the stores. Unfortunately, in this little corner of the world we are off the radar and the Event was cancelled a few hours before, due to no Leopard showing up. Bummer.
Edmonton, Canada

Thanks for the suggestions, Lyssa.
I was able to reformat the drive back to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and Apple Partition map via the iMac.
And as you suggested, I put the iMac in Target Disk Mode with the Leopard disk installed. I even got the iBook to recognize the Install Disk; however, upon selecting it, it would freeze at the gray screen with the Apple logo.
I put it away for several hours and decided to try the original Panther install disks. I put the Panter Install Disk #1 into the iBook optical drive and did the restart-option think and selected the install disk. Lo' and behold, I actually got past the apple logo and spinning dial into the start-up screen for installation where I am asked to choose a language! This is the farthest I have got in 24 hours! I proceeded to select English and continue . . . but then the system froze.
After a few more attempts, I am getting less and less progress. It seems that giving the iBook a break from troubleshooting seemed to help; repeated successive attempts only seemed to freeze me at consecutively earlier steps.
I'll try again in the morning with the Panther disks.

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