New 500GB WD hard drive on white MacBook - cannot install start up disk

I have just replaced the 60gb hitachi HD with a new western digital WD5000BEVT-24A0RT Scorpio 2.5" SATA internal 500gb HD, on my white 2007 MacBook. After inserting the OSX 10.5 leopard CPU drop-in DVD, I accessed the disk utility app and formatted the drive to 1 partition as GUID, Mac OS extended (Jornaled), but then after opening the 'startup disk' utility, no drives could be identified as suitable. Since then I have explored other partitioning formats, and tried using osx 10.4 DVD with no luck. Curiously, when in the 'disk utility' app I restored a partition as the leopard DVD (ie source = 'MATSHITA...', destination = a HD partition) I can start the MacBook up off the HD with no DVD but it still won't let me actually put OSX on a volume...
What can I do to this HD to be able to put OSX on it?

Startup Disk utility will typically only show you drives that the system can boot from. While I may be misunderstanding what you have said, it sounds like you have partitioned and formatted the drive. At this point, there isn't anything on the drive to boot into and it will not be available as a Startup Disk. You will need to install your OS onto the drive from your DVD before it will be available as a startup disk.

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