IPhoto/eMac upgrade

I have an eMac that I am going to use to display photos only. It runs on OS 10.3.9 and operates quite nicely. I use iPhoto all the time on several of my other macs and like it just fine. The original software that came with the eMac has iPhoto 4. I would like to upgrade iPhoto 4 to iPhoto 5 to get the searching capabilities.
I owned a Mac Mini that the mother board failed on and replaced it with a new mac mini with Snow Leopard. It is a great replacement. I would like to use iPhoto 5 from that set of install discs (from dead mac mini) but it will not install onto the eMac. I have erased the disc on the eMac and tried to load the Mac Mini software but it tells me that “the software cannot be installed on that machine”.
The dead Mac Mini system is 10.4.2 . Is 10.4 not compatible with the eMac or can someone give me some guidance on how to use the software that I purchased (from dead Mac Mini) but do not have a computer for?
If I can’t use the dead Mac Mini software disc to get iPhoto 5, does anyone know how I can get iPhoto 5? I do not want to upgrade the system unless it can use the 10.4 from the dead Mac Mini. I thought that after I’d wiped the eMac clean I would be able to install the dead Mac Mini system & software.
Any thoughts would be helpful

Purchase and install iLife 05. The Mac mini's original disks won't install onto other Macs.
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