Installation nightmare - need guidance

I've got an iMac G5 and an iBook G4, both of which I installed Leopard on last week. The iBook works fine. The iMac worked well for a couple days, then apps start quitting every once in a while, then more and more often. Then the whole computer started crashing (kernel panic grey screen), and other weird things started happening like the finder blinking continually.
The first thing I tried was an archive & install (I originally just did an upgrade). Every time I tried, I'd either get a kernel panic sometime during the upgrade, or I'd get a message about a missing essentials package. I finally wiped my entire hard drive, got a couple more kernel panics, and finally managed to get it to install.
From there, I let the setup assistant restore my backup from Time Machine, and I thought everything would be great. Its been a couple days, and today, all the same issues started again.
So, I went to try an archive & install, and got a kernel panic halfway through. So now, I'm sitting here with a half installed OS and a backup of all my data and I'm trying to figure out what step to take next, and I want to make sure I'm right as I've already wasted a massive amount of time on this.
I'm thinking at this point that I must have some app or preference that is causing this. The only other explanation is that there's something wrong with my hard drive, but that seems unlikely since it worked perfectly under Tiger. (I would revert to Tiger, but I did not make a clone and that seems just about as difficult).
So my plan is to wipe the drive (again) and reinstall the OS (again), but this time, don't do a full restore from Time Machine, and instead spend countless hours manually bringing back all my data, reinstalling all my apps one by one, etc.
Does that seems like the best course of action or is there something else I should try?

Do you have a full clone of your Tiger system? I had a SuperDuper clone of my Mac HD.
I tried a "upgrade and install". This failed at the very end with a blue screen of death. I tried to start over and do archive and install, but this option was grayed out. So I was left with "erase and install". Believe it or not, this worked. After the "Erase and install", it prompted me for "migrate from another Mac", "migrate from a volume on this Mac", and a couple more. I selected "migrate from a volume on this Mac", pointed to my SuperDuper clone, and everything came over. There were a couple of things a had to reinstall, but I lost no data.
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