Reinstall Tiger on original Panther G5 machine

My Dual 1.8 came pre-installed with 10.3.4. I later purchased Tiger, and am now running 10.4.11. If I ever need to reinstall from scratch due to hardware or software issues, do I have to begin with the Panther disks and then upgrade again to Tiger using those disks (and then follow-on version updates), or can I just do an erase and install directly from the Tiger disk without messing with the original Panther disks which came with my computer? I have read differing views on this, in Apple forums and elsewhere, so thought I'd ask the question myself. Thanks in advance.

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As far as I know, you will be fine reinstalling from the tiger disks, if you ever need to (which you normally shouldn't have to do).
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