Original Mac Pro Installation Discs won't allow me to reinstall!

Hi All
I just got hold of a second hand Mac Pro. All seems good until I notice that there's no iPhoto on it, and thats a bit of a must as its for a Photography Studio!
Went to install from the "Mac Pro Applications Install DVD" and get an error:
Alert: You cannot install this software on your computer
So I thought I'd just reinstall the whole system (don't really have time to spend hours troubleshooting) but I get the same problem with the "Mac Pro Max OS X Install DVD".
So any ideas? The discs came in the box with the Mac and everything else seems ok.... has someone fobbed me off with the wrong discs?
Cheers
Mark

The disks it came with aren't for that model, aren't OEM
And it would have been better to "troubleshoot" the iPhoto, though I would say it isn't a Pro app or one that a Studio would rely on and use.
A box set of retail OS X + iLife/iWork
2006 had dual / dual-core, and 2009 had a single processor quad-core.
5GB though won't take you very far.
If the Install DVD says "10.4.x" what do you see inside or in System Profile about hardware model, graphic card, processors, type of RAM?

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