Multiple problem in clean install Leopard

Hi,
I wanted to clean install my mac and unfortunately it has broken DVD drive. I found a solution, using a target disk (from a second mac), create disk image of the Leopard install DVD, start it up from that disk and clean install it.
It works !!
Then, after the leopard installed, it ask me whether I want to restore my user preference from a backup disk. And I say yes.
After it finish. I can't login it using my regular password!!!!!
Now the problem is I can't get into leopard at all, I can't reboot from target disk (since I can't login and change the startup disk), and I can't use a CD to re-install it (got a broken disk).
Any Idea how to solve this ?

First off, Mac OS X doesn't have a clean install:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607614
Second, installing from target disk mode only works if certain conditions are met:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1418365&tstart=0
Third, is there any data on the machine with the broken optical drive you wish to save before proceeding?

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