Reformatted disk but nothing appears in Mac OS X Installer

Hello,
Please help. I am stuck in a situation where I have erased the disk on my iBook G3 but the Mac OS 10.2 Installer doesn't recognize any destination disk or volume on the iBook so I can't reinstall the Mac OS.
Background: I formerly had Mac OS 10.3.9 installed on my iBook, which worked fine for many months. I then began having repeated startup issues that neither Disk Utility, Norton Disk Doctor, nor Disk Warrior could fully fix. The startup screen either had flashing folder/question mark, or Apple logo with spinning gear wheel that never stopped, or circle with line through it. Sometimes I would get thrown into the Unix command line window.
After all suggested solutions failed I tried re-installing Panther from the update CDs but it wouldn't work because it couldn't find an earlier version of the Mac OS on the destination disk. I then tried an Archive and Install with the original Jaguar CDs that came with the iBook. This didn't work and I still had a startup screen showing an Apple logo with spinning gear wheel that never stops.
I then did a backup of all my important data by starting up in Classic (somehow that still worked) and copying the data over a wireless network to my desktop G3.
I then started up the iBook with the Jaguar CD and used the DU on the CD to erase the iBook hard drive and tried to install a new copy of Jaguar but when the Installer gets to the Select Destination Disk screen there are no disks to select from.
I have tried running DU numerous times to repair the Disk but it reports "Underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)"
Please help.
Thanks,
Bob

Deb,
Thank you very much for jumping in to help me. So far things have not gone well but I'm still trying.
To answer your question first, I don't (or didn't) have any partitions on the iBook. Before I erased the disk I was able to access Classic by starting up with the Mac 9.2.1 install disk and then selecting Mac 9.2.2 (Classic) from the startup contol panel.However, I am able to run the WipeInfo, Disk Warrior and DU from their respective bootable CDs.
I ran the cycle you suggested multiple times and found that WipeInfo didn't do anything, but eventually multiple reformatting with DU and multiple times with DW brought me to a clean disk that could be seen by the 10.2 Installer. The installer ran for over an hour and it seemed that everything was being installed from Disk 1 and then almost at the end of the progress bar the Installer quit with a message about not being able to finish the installation.
So I tried again but found the disk was once again not recognized by the Installer. so I did more erasing/reformating, running disk repair on DU, and trying to build a new directory with DW. At first I kept getting the message in DW "unexpected error while writing the replacement directory" and it would say I neded to try again. With DU I got messages about "invalid B-tree node size, catalog fiile entry not found for extent, keys out of order", etc etc..-- all different errors at different trys
Somehow by going back and forth between DU and DW I finally got a clean disk recognized by the Installer and tried again. This time the Installer completed the Installation and said Mac OS successfully installed. But then it automatically rebooted and booted up with the Disk 1 install screen again. I never had a prompt to insert Disk 2. When I ejected the Disk 1 install CD and tried to reboot the machine it went back to the flashing folder/question mark screen.
I was ready to give up but tried the cycle once again. At first the errors seemed really scary-- neither DU or DW could even read the disk - but after multiple reformatting, repair, and rebuilding I seem to have a disk that can be seen by the Installer on the Select Destination screen.
I haven't tried another Installation attempt because I wanted to first get your advice. Shouldn't the computer be giving me a prompt to insert Disk 2 of 3 at some point? What option should I choose for the installation? Should it be "install Mac OS X for the first time"? Do I need to partition the iBook with an 8 GB partition? The iBook was never partitioned before but maybe a re-installation requires a partition? don't know.
Is all this just a sign that my hard drive is totally toast? Funny thing is that I also ran the Apple Hardware Test CD that came with the iBook and my machine passes all the hardware tests, including mass storage.
Thanks,
Bob

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