Re-installing Mac OS 9.1 without being able to run Mac OS 9 programs?

Hello!
My Mac OS X's Classic Environment stopped working a long time ago (possibly because I updated my Mac from 10.4.2 to 10.4.3?)!
So now I'm trying to do something about it. I have an older computer also, an iMac G3 (turquoise) and so I tried compressing its system folder and copying the .SIT file onto my eMac, but the SIT file had trouble expanding.
So then I tried copying the System Folder from my iMac Startup Disk onto my computer, and that one wasn't new enough. The Classic preferences said it had to be 9.1, and my Startup Disk was 9.0.4!
So I tried to update my Mac OS 9 from 9.0.4 to 9.1. Not easy. All of the update programs were Mac OS 9 programs, which I couldn't run because my Classic Environment was shot.
Does anyone know or have any ideas on how I could get my Classic Environment working again, or why it stopped working?

Flash is great and you should be better off with Ethernet. If your eMac's recent enough just a standard cable will connect them; if both are older, they'll need a Crossover cable.
No Mac has ever officially shipped with "just the Tiger" disks and if yours did, Apple owes you some missing plastic… or did you buy it used, please?
Which disk we're talking about changes with model and date, but all Macs since X was released have shipped with installers for both X and 9 and if the Mac is old enough, that includes pure, bootable 9.
"Just the Tiger" disks would be white, an eMac set will be gray and probably says "… eMac…" in tiny print.
An early eMac can use a white generic retail OS 9 installer; a later machine can use only Classic and must get it from the model-specific grey disk that shipped with it… but depending on model and date there may be nothing to indicate that anything other than OS X is in the disk.
If you're running X on an eMac, what do you get when you hit Help on the Menubar and ask about "installing a Mac OS 9 system folder" please? A later model should say "If you are installing from the Mac OS X installation discs, insert the "Additional Software & Apple Hardware Test" disc that came with your computer. Double-click "Install Additional Software." Hopefully an earlier model will be equally hellpful about disks with different names…

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