Installing 10.5 on brand new drive

Hi,
I've been playing with a box of imac intel (core 2 duo) parts and got it all together and running. Please don't mention how any warranty has been voided. I know. This is sort of a project.
I installed a brand new hard drive (1 terrabyte) and got the 10.5 disk to install on the drive fine after I monkeyed around with formatting the drive first. I think I made 1 partition in order for it to show up as a drive in Disk Utility. Anyway, I installed 10.5.
Then I restarted it and got the lovely desktop with all the apps and such. I tried to do a software upgrade so that I could have the latest OS (10.5.8) and got an error message saying basically that it could not install the upgrade and that I should check with the software's manufacturer.
I then went into Disk Utility again and repaired permissions. I used Disk Warrior to rebuild the drive. All successful.
Then I went to try to upgrade the software to 10.5.8 and got the same error message.
And then got a kernal panic.
Can anyone tell me what next I should try? Did I goof it by partitioning the disk in disk utility? Was there something I should have done with the new drive before installing 10.5?
Also note that I could not get the optical drive to work so have been putting the imac into target mode and using my MBPro (2.16GHz) to do all installation stuff, as well as running disk utilities and disk warrior.
Thanks in advance.
Sheila

Sheila Anderson1 wrote:
OK it does say GUID Partition Table.
That's the right choice.
Do you think this might be from a faulty new hard drive?
It's hard to say. If you have the "system disc" that came with that computer, I'd run the diagnostics on it. If you can't make the optical drive work, there may be other things wrong.
When you assembled that iMac, did you put "thermal paste" (or whatever the official term is) in all the prescribed places? If not, you might have problems causes by overheating.
These people have good guides for do-it-yourself Mac surgery:
http://www.ifixit.com

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