Spits out disc after restart...

While installing, it says 'Installation will continue after restart' or something or other, and then it restarts but then my mac ejects the disc by itself while on the grey screen, so obviously it can't continue.
I've tried starting it again but it just starts from the start again. And I've checked if it had finished but it still says I am on 10.5.7 on the 'about this mac' bit. Any Help would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, i've tested it with other discs and it spits those out too when i do a normal restart.

It is!?
Tryresatring it with another CD in it, video game, music whatever..... Does it spit it out?
If so you may have a problem with your drive....
If it doesn't you may want to back up your current OS then do a clean install of leopard/SL

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/Library/InputManagers
~/Library/InputManagers
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