MBP 15" 10.6 does not boot up from Installation disc, why??????

Good day,
my question is simple, so please let the answer be simple:
I have done partition on my MBP today, in order to give me more redundancy in case of a Hard drive failure. I witnessed one yesterday on a brand spanking Imac--> not pretty--> the white screen of death!! I thought I´d better cover myself and I split my HD in two--> no probs.
Anyways, I decided to try to boot from my original installation disc--> 10.5.7, Leopard.
I booted while pressing "C", or holding "Option"……and always ended up with the same thing:
It just takes me to a language selection screen, I selected my language, and then it takes me to the software installation--> but I don´t want that--> I just want to reboot from my disc--> as a general test. (Just in case of that dreaded white screen, one day!!)
So, I went to to "Stop installation" in the menu above, and I chose "Reboot" and then I chose my installation disc--> and again and again, it just takes me back to the language screen etc etc etc!!
It´s like a Merry go Round………….
What am I missing??
My Snow Leopard installation disc does exactly the same, by the way…………..
Cheers,
MXP 150 Patriot

"perhaps I didn´t explain myself properly:
I would like to boot up from my installation disc, in other words, being able to log in and see my Desktop etc.
All I get from my disc is an installation menu (after the language selection) and if I try to boot up from there (to my desktop / background etc) by selecting "stop installation--> start up disc".........it goes back to the language selection and the software installation........just where I was 3 minutes ago!
What am I doing wrong?
My friend booted up the other day from his FireWire external hard drive and he got everything, SO quick! His personal desktop, everything!
Hopefully you can tell me what I´m missing........."
You're missing the point. When you boot from your installation disk it's to install the OS and/or repair the disk and check the hardware, etc.. Your friend has a bootable external drive. he used the OS Installation disk to create that.

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