Mini dying?

So I upgraded my 1.25GHz G4 mini (512 RAM)to Leopard a few weeks ago - all went great and ran just fine after the upgrade. BTW: I upgraded with a retail copy and then all the way to the most current version via download). After about 2 weeks (could be unrelated to the upgrade of course), lots of beachballs when opening apps but also when just using a single app. I know 512 RAM is lower limit for Leopard but for the first couple of weeks it worked flawlessly. Anyway, things started to deteriorate - Safari and then all other browsers started crashing. Disk utility reported no problems with disk or permissions at first but then, a permission repair that took about 6 hours ensued. OK, finally, all froze and the mini refused to restart. Booted from Leopard DVD and tried to run disk and permission repair - both led to a hung system that eventually froze. Erased HD (note: erasing went OK - however, when I tried to zero out, disk utility hung)and tried to install Leopard. Got that Black Box in four languages saying "need to restart". OK - now back to the Tiger original install disks. Tried erase and install - crashed during installation. Currently, I'm trying to zero out the HD from the Tiger disk utility - so far it is progressing. If that works, I'll try to reinstall Tiger. If that fails, I'm at my wits end. Any suggestions? Is it the HD or something worse?
Thanks much!

I put the RAM in myself a couple of years ago.
OK - Tiger re-install failed too.
I ran Diskworrior and DW wasn't able to fix the directory of the drive either, so I figure the HD is toast. I actually just went ahead and replaced it - the Mac now boots up OK. My question now is: what is the easiest way to restore my previous working state? I have a full backup (via SuperDuper) of the system about two weeks ago. I also have regular timemachine backups. Can I restore from Timemachine onto the new internal hard drive or do I need to re-install Leopard onto that drive first? Will the Timemachine "restore" then fill in everything else? Or is it wiser to restore from the SuperDuper copy first? To my dismay, that copy actually isn't bootable (in spite of SuperDuper telling me it was). Don;t know if that matters though for the purpose of restoring the internal HD.
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