Reinstalling OS X PLEASE HELP

My powerbook recently messed up and wouldnt let me log on anymore. When i would turn my computer on, i would have a small folder with the finder face on it and it would blink to a question mark and then back to the finder face. So i figured that i would have to reinstall my OS X. So i poped in my disk. It went through all the necessary steps. When it got to the "Destination" part, there was no disk or volume to select. What do i do now?

How do i check if my harddrive is seated properly? Ive only had the computer for about a year and a half now. I take it back and forth from my home to school. If my harddrive is pysically fine, is there any way i can create a volume or disk? When i look at the disk utilities, 4 things came up. One was my hard drive. A sub drive of my harddrive was "untitled." Then there is another drive with a bunch of letters and numbers. The subdrive of that is my install disk. I tried to erase everything and start over, but now only the second pair of drives comes up in the disk utility and nothing shows up when i try to reinstall mac os x.

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10. Restart and repair permisssions
11. Go to the Apple menu and select "Software Update"
12. Install all missing updates and restart.
13. Repair permissions
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