Rebooting from Mac OS 10.4.11 into Mac OS 9 results a "?" on a disc.

I normally use Mac OS 10.4.11. I wanted to boot up in Mac OS 9. Using the System Preferences pane "Startup DisK", I selected Mac OS 9.2.2 and clicked "restart". A message window opened and asked "are you sure you want to restart the computer?" I clicked the "restart" radio button. The machine powered down and restarted to a grey screen that had in its center an image that looked like a floppy disk. That floppy disk image had a blinking question mark in its center. Now, the machine will only boot up to that screen which has the floppy dic image with a blinking question mark. What do I do to get back to Mac OS 10.4.11? I cannot get into my machine to do my work. Please help as I am frustrated!

I can't say if that is the case that you are suggesting. I can tell you were I am on this issue. Right now, I start up holding down the option key while I have the Mac OS X Install dvd in the optical drive. The screen reports that I have 2 choices: (1) MacIntosh (2) Mac OS X Install DVD. If I select the MacIntosh, the resulting screen upon booting is the blinking "?" on the surface of what looks like a floppy disk. So I chose the Mac OS X Install DVD and this is what I get: The grey modern apple screen loads for about 40 seconds then a black box (approx. 3" by 6") with no writing in it and the loading wheel is frozen. So I started up again with the option key to get to the 2 choices mentioned before. This time when I selected the Mac OS X Install Dvd, I also held down the shift key to see what results it would give me and here is what it reported:
The screen attempted to load the "modern apple" then froze immediately yet the screen was covered with printout. Here is a verbatim of the printout:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0X002DE020): Unable to find driver for this platform: PowerMac 3,1.
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00095564 0x00026838 0x002DE020 0x002BD350 0x002DB118 0x002BDB80 0x002BE1EC 0x000A8694
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x00550A00)
PC=00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR= 0x00000000; R1= 0x00000000; XCP= 0x0000000(Unknown)
Kernel Version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.0.0: Sat Mar 26 14:15:22 PST 2005; root:xnu-792.obj~1/RELEASE PPC
No debugger configured - dumping debug information
MSR=00001030
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00095564 0x00095C64 0x00026838 0x002DEO20 0x002BD350 0x002BD118 0x002DBD80 0x002BE1EC 0x000A9654
Proceeding back via execution chain:
Exception state (sv=0x0055080A00)
PC=0x00000000, MSR=0000DO30; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000(Unknown)
Kernel Version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.0.0: Sat Mar 26 14:15:22 PST 2005; root:xnu-792.obj~1/RELEASE PPC
panic: We are hanging here...
That is the text entirely. I am not sure what it all means. Can you help?

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