Many Problems: Flashing Folder at Boot and Can't get drives to boot dvds

another flashing folder post....i've looked thru many of them but can't seem to find a fix for my problem.
I just got a powerbook g4 15" 1.25ghz from a friend. it didn't have the factory discs but i had a copy of 10.4.6 from an old ebay purchase. i tried to load it (holding down c at start) i get a blank grey screen for a sec or 2 then it goes to the flashing folder (face finder/question mark). i thought maybe the disc was bad since its been scratched a few times so a friend made me a copy of some old 10.2 cds and they do the same thing.
So i thought maybe it was the superdrive so i hooked up my external dvd drive via firewire 400. i tried the cmd/opt/shift/del to boot from firewire and got nothing and then used the startup manager and never got it to bring up either disc from the superdrive or the external drive.
So i don't know what the problem could be..
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

just found this out...i need the actual powerbook install cds...haha oops...well suse is installing fine on it now

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