Mini will not boot disks from combo drive

Mini was having "issues." Thought I would do a clean install to correct all problems. When I insert OSX install disk and hold "C" key the computer tries to boot from the disk. The grey screen and apple logo apear. But instead of then going to the little spinning grey bars and booting to the disk, the grey apple shifts to the right and a some trash appears to the right of the logo, the computer freezes.
I have run the computer in terminal mode and run disks on the optical drive just fine.
It simply will not boot off of a disk in the optical drive.
HELP!
12 Powerbook G4, iMac G4 Flat Panel   Mac OS X (10.3.7)  

Try booting into safemode by holding down shift key. Sometimes it does take up to 5 minutes to boot into safemode but sometimes your atleast able to uses your computer as a temporary fix. If you can't boot into safemode it sound's like your hard drive has failed, in that case you would need to contact apple for a repair.

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