OS 9 won't install - can't boot up from CD either

A little background on my original situation: When I bought my computer a few yrs ago it only came with 1 install disk (10.2.3) Classic was already on the machine. (By the way, because of the time frame in which I bought the computer, it does not have the ability to boot from EITHER os 9 or 10. It ONLY is able to boot up in OS X and Classic starts up when needed.) Last month I had a "kernel panic" and ended up doing an erase and install - and now any traces of Classic are no where to be found. (I backed up all of my documents & app programs but I didn't think I'd have to save all of the classic stuff too.) Anyway, I tried reinstalling from the original CD and it only installs 10.2.3...still no classic.
Fastforward to last week. I bought & installed Panther 10.3 and everything is great however I still need classic to open my old files. I also bought OS 9.2 on ebay . Problem #1: I put the OS9 disk in, restarted (and held down the C key) and from what I understand a CD background should be on the screen - however, it's just the plain blue normal screen. I'm not sure what's up with that. Am I doing it right or wrong? Did I buy the wrong version? (It's grey and says imac install software (small print = version 9.2) Did I need the disk with a big 9 on it?
Moving on... If I dbl. click on Install software icon - - - it starts to process then a box comes up that says "Classic cannot update files in "System folder" on "imac install" because the disk is read only. Open classic prefs to choose" Obviously it can't be installed onto itself so the only other choice is Macintosh HD and it is "greyed out" and I cannot click on it. Any advice would be appreciated, I'm getting desperate! Thanks
iMac G4 Flat Panel Mac OS X (10.3)

Hi, Denise. Every Mac that can boot only into OS X was originally shipped with an Install or Restore disk that can install OS 9 for Classic operation (not for booting). Yours is no exception. Somewhere on your single combined Install/Restore DVD (if that's really the only disk that came with your iMac) is a Classic installer; take a good look for it. If it isn't on that disk, there was originally another disk that contained it, which you may have misplaced and forgotten about. This article may help.
Retail OS X installer sets since OS 10.2 have not contained Classic installers, so your Panther installer set will do you no good as far as obtaining Classic is concerned.
The iMac-specific OS 9 installer disk you bought may not be usable. Unless it was originally shipped with an iMac model that isn't OS 9-bootable, it expects you to boot the computer to it. If that's the case, it won't be willing to install onto your hard drive, because the hard drive is the startup disk.
My understanding (and I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong) is that a retail OS 9.x installer (white with a big gold 9) wouldn't do you any good either. I believe that all such disks require you to boot to them before using them, and of course you can't do that on your iMac.
The best, and perhaps the only, option available to you is to locate the Classic installer on your original iMac disk, or if there really is none, order directly from Apple a duplicate of the other disk, originally shipped with your iMac, that did contain that installer.

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