Retail Tiger 10.4.6 Disk not recognized

Powerbook G4. Have all the requirements. Brand new out of the box OS X Tiger Disk. Every time I put the disk into my disk drive all I hear is whirring and spinning. This happens for about 1 minute or more and then the disk ejects. No installer appears. It doesn't show up on the desktop at all. I have tried the chime/holding down the C thing. No luck. The disk is ejected just before the startup screen loads in fully. I am the adminstrator - one other user besides me. I've checked the disk for scratches. None to the naked eye or magnifying glass. I don't have problems with any other disks - they are recognized and show up. Any suggestions.
Otherwise it's back to the Apple store for me domani.
Thank you in advance for the advice coming my way.

Also, if you have a DVD player in the machine, have
you checked to see if any DVD mounts? If you do have
one, the spinning and ejecting implies that the drive
is hosed. I have an iMac G4 that'll read and write
CDs but won't recognize DVDs. Got a LaCie DVD ±RW
external FireWire burner for under $100 that works
superbly—a lot cheaper than trying to fix/replace the
original drive.
I tried a couple of other video DVD's and get nada. Just the whirring and spitting. Is there a way to verify that a simple change would do the trick versus this being a hose job?
This all started because I wanted to add an external camera. It turned out that I needed to upgrade to Tiger so 250 bucks later (camera and Tiger) there's a possibility that my dvd is fried and I have to fork out yet another unknown amount. I know this is a common story (different details same outcome) but I needed a moment to whine.

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However, some very old documents are on 3.5 disks that are not recognized by my current Apple computers, or my Windows XP laptop.
You appear to be talking about two separate issues—translating the files from an earlier version of ClarisWorks/AppleWorks to the AW 6 file format, and retrieving the old files from disks that cannot be read by your current machines.
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