Internal Drive won't load Mac OS X, please help!

I am trying to reinstall OS X 10.4 on my macbook, however I get this message: "You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. Mac OS X cannot start from this volume."
I am having to reinstall on a 160GB 3rd party HD which I bought to replace the stock 60GB. I used super duper some time back to copy the old onto the new, and then stuck it into my Macbook. Everything had been running fine except for two things, one of which was a problem.
First, when I would start up my computer, just a fraction of a second, before the gray apple would show up, it would show a file folder with a question mark on it, but this never bothered me too much.
Second, and more importantly, Boot Camp would never even initialize, saying it could not partition the drive. I ran Disk Utility to no avail.
So now, I have backed up my important files, ran a disk erase, and even tried an external, but nothing is working, please help!!!
I would really like to have my computer up and running again, and even more so to have Boot Camp operational.
Here is a link to a pic I took of the problem with my phone:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37647594@N00/?saved=1
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Thank you so so much for your help. I knew you knew what you were talking about, but I was confused because I was unaware that there was a difference in selecting the volume and the disk, and so I wasn't seeing a partition tab, but I figured it out. Thank you again, this is wonderful. I love the mac discussion forums, its great to see fellow users helping each other out.

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