Powerbook G4 1.67 will not boot OS X

Hi,
I am having this very strange problem. I have a PB G4 1.67 bought off eBay. A month ago I was trying to fresh install OS X Retail DVD on my PB. Here is what happened:
(1) The PB would boot from the DVD but get stuck either at the gray spinning wheel or at the blue screen with the mouse cursor visible on the top left corner of the screen.
(2) When this happens the PB is stuck big time and the mouse cursor will not move, the DVD drive stops spinning after a while.
(3) I tried to install it a couple of more times with the same result. I check the DVD for error on another machine and it works fine on it. I then took the PB to the Apple Service Centre and after a day with it they told me the logic board is kaput and will need to replace it. But I was not going to give them $1200 for the repair.
(4) After a couple of days a friend gave me an idea to try and install Ubuntu on it to check if works at all with a different OS. To my surprise Ubuntu (downloaded from their site) worked on the first install. I checked and everything works OK. Bluetooth, Airport, DVD drive, Sound, LAN all check. After this I knew that the PB hardware was all OK.
(5)After a couple of weeks I got my hands on a fire wire cable and a friend's old G3 iMac. I installed the same Retail OS X DVD on the PB hard disk (using Target Disk mode) using the iMac. After the install and setup I disconnected the firewire cable and tried to boot the PB from the newly OS X installed HD. It would get to the blue screen with the mouse cursor and get stuck. I felt all my hopes lost.
Then I got an idea and re-connected the PB to the iMac on target disk mode and did a Software Update. I booted the PB and VOILA, it came back on like a new machine. Everything worked again. I think the Software Update must have installed a bug fix or something. I clearly remember it installing a file called OS X Combined Update or something. I am writing this on the PB now.
(6) After I got the PB running I tried to install directly on the PB and it would still give me the blue screen and get stuck. Luckily I can boot from the HD now and use the machine. But I will need to reinstall again and I will get the same problem. I don't want to go and use my friends old iMac every time I format my PB.
My question is why is this happening? My PB doesn't want to directly install OS X from the DVD. I know for a fact now that my PB works OK only after the OS X Combined update. But there is no way to update this unless the machine would boot from the DVD and install the OS in the first place. I am tryint to see if I get the same result from Leopard. My friend has bought Leopard and I will get to test it on my PB sometime during this week. Hope it works?
Hope someone can shed some light on this problem!
Cheers.

Finding the disks that would have shipped with your PB may be a bit tough. You can try ebay, but it may be hard to determine if the install disks would be new enough to support your PB. You may consider buying 10.5 provided that you've done enough research to know that the apps you need will work.
In any case, are you sure your DVD drive is working well? Bad memory could also cause an installation to stop (although you'd probably see a bunch of other crashes if you had bad memory.) Have you tried running the startup disk system pref while the disk is in and the PB is running? It should only recognize valid startup volumes.
Jeff

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