Please help my mac has become uselesss

Ok heres the story i picked up an old crt slot loading i mac for cheap because i may need it for school, and even if it turn out that i wont need it i still want to use it. the computer runs OS X but every time i start it i get a kernel panic, even running in single user, so i figured the best way to get it to work would be a clean install, but the computer came from a business, and doesn't have the disks with it, I have backups of the same disks on my windows computer that i got from my original mac they are 10.4.1 and its the CD version. there is 4 images and they are in .dmg how can i burn these with my windows computer so that i can fix my mac. or is there any way to fix it without having to burn these CD's. please help i just want to get it to work, but can't afford to go buy a new copy of OS X.

so i figured the best way to get it to work would be a clean install, but the computer came from a business, and doesn't have the disks with it, I have backups of the same disks on my windows computer that i got from my original mac they are 10.4.1
I am not sure of all the details, but the mac os software when installed on a Machine can be customized for a particular machine family. This tends to be the case when the machine comes from the factory. The software that will work on any machine cames from the retail versions of Mac OS. In summary, the software in your dmg files are likely to work only on the machine family that they came from. Hence, it won't work on your machine.
and its the CD version. there is 4 images and they are in .dmg how can i burn these with my windows computer so that i can fix my mac. or is there any way to fix it without having to burn these CD's. please help i just want to get it to work, but can't afford to go buy a new copy of OS X.
Have you stopped using this machine? If not, you have a copyright problem.
I suggest you get a copy of 10.3 on ebay for 20 to 30 dollars. I'd guess. Be sure to get the retail version that will install on any machine. Tiger will come down when 10.5 is out this month. Make sure your machine can read the cd/dvd media. Like don't get a dvd when you have only a cd reader.
Your university may be sell Mac OS at a discount too.
Be sure your firmware is at the latest level.
Open Firmware, boot into Open Firmware.
Power on your iMac while holding down commandoption+of
The first output line contains the firmware level. Mine reads:
Apple PowerMac4,1 4.1.9f1 BootRom built on 09/14/01 at 13.18.04
Copyright 1994-2001 Apple Computer Inc.
Some machine may not contain the firmware level but some other number which can be translated to the firmware level.
On my machine, I have 4.1.9f1.
What firmware do you need?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117

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          MacBook - model: MacBook6,1
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          NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0 - SDK 10.9
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                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 249.2 GB (143.58 GB free)
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