Problems Installing Leopard on MacBook Pro

I've been trying to install Leopard on my Macbook Pro - for some reason, it asked me to format my hard drive to continue the install. So, I changed my startup disk to my harddrive and restarted - but now, my computer won't start up!
I've tried:
booting up with and without the leopard install disk
and booting up with my 10.4 install disk (the one that came with my MBP)
Any ideas? I've been waiting on the apple support line for the last 15 minutes and I'm getting a little frustrated. Thanks!

I had a similar experience on my MB Pro. Freshly rebooted, logged in as Administrator, backed up user data, but not applications folder (my mistake). Leopard install hosed my startup disk, could not repair with Disk Utility, could not boot from prior Tiger HD. Totally hosed. I had to reboot several times even to get it to do a clean install after that. I've just about got my machine back to usable, but have lost my applications requiring reinstalls, and some other stuff. This is a totally unacceptable upgrade process for an Apple product. I am very disappointed. It's not like Apple did not have enough time to get this right. It stinks.

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