Trouble with Leopard install...

I am trying to install leopard on my macbook pro and it showed an icon of my HD with a yellow exclamation point, saying I needed to change my install options. The only two options were Journaled or case-sensitive Journaled. (both needing to erase my HD.) I selected Journaled and clicked install. The DVD ran a check and then said that it could not be installed, with this error message:
"Installer could not create the folder "/Volumes/MacintoshHD/BaseSystem.pkg.1432Vz5v8"
I clicked on restart to try again. It is currently checking the DVD again. If it fails, what should I do?
thanks

If there's nothing on your hard drive that you want to preserve, I suggest erasing using the disk utility on the installation DVD. You can access this utility from the "utilities" menu, and use the Disk Utility to verify the disk before you proceed with the install. I suggest doing a full "write to zeros", which will take a little while but will be one additional way to ensure that the disk is functioning correctly.

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