Macbook wont boot CD - need any help

Alright so the other day my mac wouldnt boot up. And i took it to the apple store and they decided that i need a hard drive. so i went and bought one, and it wont boot the install cd that came with the laptop. I have no idea why with both hard drives all you see is a folder with a ? flashing. Wont boot or run anything. What do i do?

Ok dale, thank you very much for that help. Now i got the cd to boot finally, but when i go to install it, the computer wont find the hard drive now to install it on there......it says select a destination, and its blank.

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