OS 10.4 clean install failing in a loop on second DVD - Help?

I am clean-installing 10.4 using the original DVDs on my iMac 20" that is only about 6 months old (PPC.) The first DVD installs fine, it checks the disc etc., then it asks for the second DVD. I pop it in. It hangs for a long time, then it starts to install Keynote 2. A few seconds into this, it restarts the process as though it had just asked for the 2nd DVD and I insterted it. It looped like this for 3-4 hours. The Error Log never reports anything wrong for long enough for me to see. There are no errors while it is hanging.
I've tried it twice clean. The computer ran fine before I did this. I got a new MacBook Pro and am giving my iMac to my sister, and I wanted to clean install it for her. Disaster - now it won't work either way...
Any ideas? Is it just bad media on the second DVD? Is there something I can download?
Thanks for your help!
Rob
20" iMac (PPC) and MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Why not try to install using the Custom Install option (you can install just disk 2) and select not to install Keynote and anything else it balks at.
In that way, it might get you up and running and then, as sugggested, contact Apple and try for replacement disk(s).

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