Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 Retail does not install on Macbook

I bought a version of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 Retail from a store to install on my Macbook (2Ghz Intel) running Tiger 10.4. I also bought a new larger harddisk and as I needed to install fresh anyway I just put in the new disk and tried to install Mac OS X from the Leopard disk I got.
Turns out the installer starts up, I can see the disk it's all fine. I even can partition the disk and format it but the installer refuses to install on the system with an error message that Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer!!!
I played with all options to no conclusion and went back to my original Tiger install disk. It booted up and started to install no questions asked. I went through the whole install of Tiger and then put the Leopard disk in the drive and sure enough it started to install.
So here is my conclusion: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 Retail cannot be used as a fresh install disk if there is no previous Mac operating system on the computer.
Is that right? Anybody had similar problems?

aschmid wrote:
The disk seems alright as it booted up into OS X Installer and that's where I got the message that OS X cannot be installed on this computer. So it would not boot into the installer if the disk is damaged.
Not true. It could boot up, run, install everything, and then either fail at the end or brick your Mac if the install disk is bad. There is no way to tell. If you did get a new install disk and it worked, then you would have proven the install disk was bad. If you get a new install disk and it fails again, then your Mac is broken.
Has anybody out there actually done this: Put a new blank harddisk into a Mac and then try to install with the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Retail disk?
That is the only way I've ever installed Leopard.
Also as far as I know there is no "upgrade" or "full" version of Mac OS X Leopard. There is only the Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 Retail DVD. That's it, one version.
There is a third version - one that ships with a Mac. A version like that would only install on the Mac it was shipped with. This could be the case if you bought your "retail" Leopard installer disk through some grey-market channel like eBay or Craigslist. In that case, Caveat emptor.

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