Installing leopard on imac G4

I hope someone can help me here, I'm having real difficulty installing leopard on my G4 imac, it meets all the necessary requirements and I have enough free space to install.
When the restart is needed the disk seems to be sluggishly turning with a white screen and the apple logo. This is all that happens, I can get the disk out of the mac eventually but no install.
I've done a disk utility and it states that the disk needs repairing, although when I do a disk utility on my girlfriends imac it stated that the disk seems fine.
We do have different DVD drives I have a SONY DVD RW DW-U10A (Firmware Revision: A13b) and she has a HL-DT-ST RW/DVDE GCC-4480B.
I have searched for a firmware update but can only find one for a PC.
Any suggestions please?

andrewtatan wrote:
Hi unfortunately my server cannot connect to your website, therefore I can't confirm if it looks like the image posted.
But it is a retail version and it does say Upgrade DVD on the disk.
You can see an image of the retail disk & the box at Apple Store (U.S.) - Mac OS X v10.5.4 Leopard.
As has already been noted in this thread, an "Upgrade DVD" is not the retail version. It will not work with most Macs, nor was it ever intended to do so.

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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard installation system requirements
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24950
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MB427Z/A Leopard 10.5.1 install DVD
MB576Z/A Leopard 10.5.4 install DVD
MB021Z/A Leopard 10.5.6 install DVD (single user)
MB022Z/A Leopard 10.5.6 install DVD (5-user family pack)
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1544
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Wf5ve wrote:
My son has a Macbook 15" white that I wish to upgrade to Leopard. The drive on his Macbook is broken and we don't feel there is a need to fix (USB Sticks and downloads are more than enough these days). I would prefer to format the Macbook and install Leopard clean because I am thinking of passing it on to his younger sister and buying him a new Macbook. I have the firewire and factory OSX Leopard. How should I proceed?
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