OS X Install Disc not booting

My eMac 1.42GHz PPC G4 (OS 10.4.10) does no longer regognise my administrator password. I have found out (i think...) that the only way of fixing this issue is by using the OS X Install Disc 1. I have tried this several times but the disc does not seem to boot. I have tried updating the firmware for my superdrive (SONY DVD RW DW-D21A) but it still does not work.
Would anyone be able to guide me in finding a solution as this problem is quite annoying.
Thanks in advance

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Hi guys. Tricky one this.
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No problems for months, love the speed of it.
Yesterday my mbp would not boot up, it gets to the grey apple logo, and the spinning icon, but hangs there. I try safe mode, and I try the Lion recovery option and re-install Lion on the HD. Still no startup, still stuck on the spinning icon and the apple logo.
I put in the old original HD with Snow Leopard on and the laptop works perfectly, hoorah! A dead hd I assume. Although I then put the Momentus XT in a usb enclosure and plug it into the laptop, viola all the folders and files are there in perfect order.
I try booting from the external drive, but it just gets stuck in the same place again - apple logo and spinning icon.
Can anyone think of a possible way I can rectify this and get back to using the Momentus as my main drive?
I can't think of anything else to do (other than a complete clean install which I don't want to do and loose all my data).
Help!

Thanks Lupiunus.
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Inside the mbp now is the original HD running Snow Leopard, booting and running fine.
Inside the usb enclosure is the Momentus XT drive running Lion, which is browsable and usable as an external disc in Snow Leopard, but unable to boot from when inside the mbp.
If I plug the usb enclosure into the mbp, turn on the mbp holding the option key and boot from the external drive it simply gets to the Apple logo then sits forever with the rotating icon beneath the logo.
Could there be a random permission problem, or a random file causing Lion to not boot?
It's also worth mentioning that as well as using the cmd + r to do the Lion recovery install, I've also tried repairing permissions and the drive, which gave no errors.

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Help needed!
If i click "verify" in Disk Utility, i get "The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired." as answer. However "repair" needs to unmount the volume which is not possible because it's the system/boot partition.
Currently, I dont have access to my mac os x install disc (DVD), which could be used to boot from and run disk utility. The dvd is locked away in my office in another country.
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