Reinstalling mac os leopard on new hard drive

Hi, ive had meny problems with my macbooks hard drive failing before, infact i think its a design flaw, i wasn't forking out another 200 quid or so to get my hard drive replaced on this laptop, so i opened it up, and stuck in a hard drive from a broken exturnal hard drive,
when i got my mac apple released osx leopard and i got a copy, but i cannot reinstall from the disc as its asking for a previous version of mac to be installed on the hard drive, and will not let me install otherwise,
now i can run windows vista on it and use the disc for drivers, i have also tried ubuntu but i cannot get the drivers working without the mac part on.
i do have a macmini with os x 10 running on it, does any one know how i could create a backup, and put it onto the hard drive to reinstall macintosh on?
there is a reason for all this, i have a macmini server without a disc reader, and its impossible to set up remote disc from a windows machine, so it would also be nice to sort out my old macbook, specially since usb disc drives i brought also do not work on my mac mini.
Thanks
Tom Middlecoat

Tom Middlecoat wrote:
...when i got my mac apple released osx leopard and i got a copy, but i cannot reinstall from the disc as its asking for a previous version of mac to be installed on the hard drive, and will not let me install otherwise...
When Apple releases a operating system they issue free upgrade disks with new Mac purchases because the currently boxed new Mac's have the older operating system on it.
Also the new Mac's at that time have a OS X installation disk say for 10.4 inside all sealed up and all, then you get the upgrade disk say 10.5 taped to the outside of the box or handed to you by Apple staff.
You tried installing 10.5 and it's a upgrade disk only, so you need the 10.4 disk that came inside the box with the Mac, as it also has drivers for that particular model. Install 10.4 first, then upgrade to 10.5.
If you have a Intel machine, then just pay $29 and install Snow Leopard 10.6 as it's better than 10.5.
If you have a PPC box, then your stuck on 10.5 forever.

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