Leopard will not install on Macbook Pro

I have been reading all the posts here and am very surprised at all the issues. I expect this out of Micrsoft not Apple. I have close to 6 hours into this install and here I sit typing this in Tiger. I had the failed install where it tells me that I have to format the drive. I spent 1 1/2 hours on the phone with tech support and all I really accomplished was learning a few keyboard shortcuts (I'm new to Mac since April of this year). Disk utility in Tiger says the drive is fine. Disk Utility in Leopard Installer says it is not and needs a minor header repair. Repair disk doesn't fix it. Any ideas? I did a repair any way. I verified disk permissions and had to do a repair. Tried Leopard again with the same result. The read me first file states you cannot do an upgrade on a UFS formatted volume. Mine is HFS. The following is what it reads at the bottom of Disk Utility:
Disk Description : Hitachi HTS541612J9SA00 Media Total Capacity : 111.8 GB (120,034,123,776 Bytes)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2 Write Status : Read/Write
Connection Type : Internal S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Partition Scheme : GUID Partition Table
I have 77g of storage space left so that is not it. I am new to Mac so I am not familiar enough with the file structure to get all my files. Even if I was, after the install attempt, I cannot see my network drive to do the backup. Hooking the drive directly to my Mac initiates a message to format my external drive. I have a ton of info on it so I have been backing it up to my Vista machine for most of the morning. Any ideas?

After backing everything up and attempting a clean install, I finally got it to run, but not without a fight. I started teh install and had to erase teh drive. I expected that this time. The erase was successful and it continued on. About 5 minutes into it I got a new error that stated that it failed because it could not create a folder on the volume. I restarted the machine and held down the "C" key on boot. Leopard installed without a hitch. Running nicely now. I will say that I am disappointed at how much trouble I had to go through to get to this point.

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