Leopard failed to install halfway through

I got passed the language selection and all that and about halfway through the installation it crashed and said to restart. It deleted Tiger and didnt install Leopard. When I try to boot from Leopard dvd I just get the white screen with the apple and the circle. When i start up without leopard in the drive i get a blue screen for a few minutes and then it tells me to restart. Thats as far as i can get. Ive tried booting in safemode and firmware and nothing has worked so far. I'm really not sure what to do next. Might there be another Leopard disc im not finding; this one says CPU Drop-in DVD

Another hosed installation and apparently you don't have a bootable backup. All I can suggest is to use the Tiger install disks that came with your machine and restore the machine to factory specs. Once, that's done, get a bootable, external HD (preferably FireWire), and make a bootable backup/clone before upgrading and ensure that it's bootable and works like the original. That allows you to revert to the previous good state without having to reinstall anything. See these for details:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html

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I'm sorry. I should have answered when you asked about RAM the first time. I have 2GB. I have tried installing with that, and I tried installing with RAM at the Genius Bar. I don't know how much the guy used at the Genius Bar.
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