Refurbished Powerbook G4, Trouble Installing Included 10.4 disks

We've been trying to install the disks included with our refurbished powerbook G4, to upgrade it to 10.4. Upon reboot with the installation disks, it gives us an error saying that the install cannot be completed on the hard drive. It sounds like some problems people have been having trying to use the disks to upgrade their other systems, but... these are the ones that came with the machine when we got it less than a week ago.
Help? I need this machine for work and I'm desperate.

Do you have any USB or Firewire hard drives attached to your system? If yes, are you sure that you're trying to install to the internal hard drive and not an external one?
Stu

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