Partition Hard drive with os9 drivers using Leopard Disks on Intel iMac

After the death of my iMac 17" a few weeks ago, I purchased a new iMac from Apple.
I am having trouble, though because it will not run any of my design programs. Photoshop 7, etc. I have done extensive research & found that the problem is that these programs are not compatible with Leopard.
I cannot afford to re-purchase all these programs. Besides, I need to be able to run some older programs in Classic. There are many reasons for this which I will not bore you with.
I found the following discussion here on Apple about partitioning the HD so that I can run Tiger with Classic support.
http://discussions.apple.com/profile.jspa?userID=173301
It was stated that you could create partitions to run Classic, Tiger and Leopard.
I would like to create a Volume for Leopard and another for Tiger with Classic support.
I have tried to do use Disk Utility as discussed here:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
However, I can only get my mac to boot from the Leopard install disks. It does not give have the option to install OS9 drivers as shown in the above tutorial. My iMac will not boot from the Tiger install disks. (They are not model specific. They were purchased separately from Apple.)
I understand that Leopard OS does not offer Classic support. However, I need it in the partition that I plan to run Tiger.
How should I proceed?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Libraries have computers everywhere. I would recommend getting acquainted with your nearest one. If they don't have computers, hours, times, write your local politicians demanding better computers, and hours if there aren't enough. You could have subscribed to Apple Discussions at the library, and learned as much as you needed. The info is out there. http://www.everymac.com/ is another place, so is http://www.apple-history.com/ and many sites you'll find via http://www.macsurfer.com/
Tiger isn't so much outdated, as no longer sold by Apple. Plenty of people still use Tiger, and even Panther, and believe it or not, even Mac OS 9. See this board:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=177
and
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=99
So it is not like there aren't people using it. It just becomes harder to find some things, but never would I say impossible.

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