Snow Leopard Reinstall Issue

So I'm selling my early 2009 Mac Mini (Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, 2GB Ram, 120 GB HD).
First, I backed up and formatted my Macintosh HD, and then I tried to reinstall the OS numerous times. I tried to "Erase and Install" from the Leopard install disk, then "Archive and Install" from the Leopard and install disk, then tried to install from the SL upgrade DVD numerous times, with it finally working on the fourth or so try.
Almost every time it failed, it gave me a different error, or no error at all.
First try (Erase and install from 10.5 disk): Long log file errors
Second try (Archive and install from 1.5 disk): "UNKNOWNINSTALLERROR"
Third try (Install from SL disk (said Upgrade)): Froze (No mouse)
Fourth try (Install from SL disk (said New Install)): Froze (Mouse movement)
Fifth try (Install from SL disk (said New Install)): Froze (Mouse movement)
Sixth try (Install from SL disk (said New Install)): Left it overnight, still was calculating time remaining when i woke up
Seventh try (Install from SL disk (said New Install)): Worked fine
Also, between the fifth and sixth try I tried to restore my computer from a backup, which also froze it.
In order to sell it, I want to leave it at the stage it is at, so that the buyer can register it in his/her name.
Now my questions are: Does this happen sometimes? My uneducated guess is that the 8x Superdrive is too slow to run the installer stable. Is this true? Should I go through the setup, test the Superdrive, then try to reinstall again?
Also, the Superdrive worked for everything else before I tried this.
Message was edited by: austinhab

First thing to do is boot the computer with the Leopard install disc into the Apple Hardware Test program (holding down the D key) and run the extended tests at least twice. I suspect a hardware issue.

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