Powerbook won't restart/ after interrupting the installaton of Leopard 10.5

Having just installed Leopard on an older imac with no problems, I went to install it on my powerbook. It got to the window for selecting the destination and I realised I didn't have enough room. In order to remove some data, I followed the directions to quit installation and selected the mac hard drive. It asked if it was ok to launch with 10.4.?? which I agreed to.
The Computer restarted but won't move off the grey screen with the little "processing" circle. I tried holding Option and ejected leopard, and selected the HD, but it still won't move on.
HELP! have I lost everything?

Are you using the iMac install disks to try to install Leopard on the Powerbook? If so, it won’t work. The disks that come with a computer are specific to that model. The retail version of Leopard (black and purple disk, not gray) is needed to install on a computer that did not come with Leopard installation disks.
You didn’t say which Powerbook. Minimum requirements are: Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor, 512MB of physical RAM, DVD drive for installation.

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