Reloading OS on MacBook Pro

Hello, I am presently trying to help someone who has a MacBook Pro that had Windoze XP on it. He bought it from a place that was upgrading their computers and did not get any disks with it.
How does one find out what system was originally installed? The XP was a straight boot from ms and therefore the audio and disk drive was rendered useless.
They gave him three sets of MacBook Pro discs. They are OS 10.4.6, 10.4.7 and 10.5. He brought his computer to me to see if I could load his OSX back on. He had taken it to a MS outfit who really messed it up.
To make the story shorter, I tried the first two, and they each started to load. The first one stopped at install with "Alert. This software cannot be installed on this computer". So I tried the second. It formatted the disc, and then said the same thing. Now I did not have ANY OS on the computer. These two systems said it did not have a disk drive even though it was reading from it. Then I tried the OS 10.5. It went a little farther than the other two. It now said that it had a disc drive when I read the profile. It started loading the system and then came up with an error. The error said that "This computer will not load OSX." Well, it didn't have to tell me that, because it was right.
Is there a special OS for this MacBook? Or is this guy just out his bucks? It looks like a decent computer. Nice display. The XP looked good until it was wiped by trying to load.
I didn't think that Windows could be loaded on a Mac without the basic OSX.
Anyone have an idea? The serial of this MacBook is W86230XZVWZ

olddon,
The owner should have insisted that the Macbook Pro come with its original "Software Restore" disks. These disks will contain installers for a machine-specific version of OS X, the latest version available at the time the machine was manufactured, and they will also contain all the "bundled software" that comes with every Mac.
Without these disks, the owner will have absolutely none of the iLife components: iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, etc. I strongly recommend that the owner purchase the latest iLife suite.
All this said, I see one thing that may be preventing the installation of 10.5 (this is the only version of OS X that you can install on the Macbook Pro). Let's see if we can't get you past that....
Boot to the 10.5 install disk by holding down the "C" key when you hear the startup chime, with the disk inserted. WHen the installer loads, choose a language, then open Disk Utility from the "Utilities" menu.
At the left side of the Disk Utility window, select the Macbook Pro's internal hard drive. Select the drive, not the named volume that will appear indented underneath. With the drive selected, switch to the "Partition" pane.
In the "Partition" pane, choose "Current" as a partition scheme (you want just one partition), choose "Mac OS Extended (journaled)" as the format, name the volume to be created "Macintosh HD," then click the "Options..." button. Here, you want to select the "GUID" partition scheme. Confirm your choices, then click "Apply."
Quit Disk Utility to return to the installer, then attempt to install OS X.
Scott
P.S. The problem, based on what you have posted, is that the internal drive has an "MBR" partition map. In order to install OS X for an Intel Mac, the drive must use the "GUID" partition map scheme. -s

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