Leopard re installation on new hard drive issue.

Hello,
Recently my girlfriend and myself took a vacation so we had to bring the Macbook of hers...  Unfortunately the laptop fell out of the luggage and landed FLAT on the bottom.  Looking at the Macbook we got the dreaded gray question mark of death!  I actually am a network engineer at a company and fix many Windows computers so I tried my luck on this, but nothing.  I decided to bite the bullet and took it to a local Mac repair shop and they told me the hard drive was destroyed, which I was grateful it was not the motherboard.  I bought a 500 GB laptop hard drive to reinstall it myself (How hard can it be right?) and of course I run into the problem I am starting this thread for. 
Whenever I put in the OS disk for reinstallation I of course am supposed to hold the Option key or potentially the C key for the disk.  Nothing comes up...
I cannot boot to that dang disk to save my life.  It is Leopard 10.5.
Being in an IT field for Windows I thought I could hook up the new hard drive with my jig and install the OS that way.  Seems I did not know about Macs as I thought I did, as I could not do it.
I was wondering if anyone had the same issue as I am having trying to reinstall Leopard.  Kind of didn't want to dish out money for a new Macbook (which we are) yet.  Of course if you need anymore information I would be happy to give it.   If it is a simple solution you have the right to call me dumb cause I don't care at this point lol.  Thanks.
Kurrman

Hi Kurrman,
Is it the original 10.5 Install Disc for this Book, or a Retail Install Disc?
Could the keyboard not be connected properly?

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