Trying to install Leopard on a fresh hard drive

UGGGH.... Mindbending problem here.
I've got a two year old Macbook. It was acting very strange (total reinstall of Leopard resulted in some random old programs showing up in new OS), and for a variety of reasons Apple told me aI needed a new hard drive. Since it was out of warranty I bought one myself and installed it.
I install it fine, load from a DIFFERENT Macbook's Leopard Install Disc One (I can't find my original Tiger one) and it gets to the install screen. I select English as my language. It says "Installing software" for two seconds before it says "Mac OS X can not be installed on this computer". That's it. It brings be to the normal Leopard install menu. I run Disc Doctor or whatever it's called, it says the hard drive is fine. I formatted it and named it "Macintosh HD". Still doesn't work. Every time I try to boot from this DVD it says OS X can't be installed. Most frustrating error message ever. I have Time Machine, so I connect to my network and try to install from a Time Machine backup, no luck.
What's worse, I have a spare Leopard DVD install disc from when I originally upgraded from Tiger without a problem last year. I put it in the Macbook's DVD drive, hold down C, and it won't boot from it. It just reads the disc, sits there for a second, and ejects the disc. EVERY TIME.
So this Leopard Install Disc One that came with a different Macbook tells me OS X can't be installed. The regular Leopard DVD keeps getting ejected when I try to boot from it.
What the **** is going on with this thing?

you can't use an install disk that came with a different computer. It's hardware specific and it won't work as you've found out. It's also against ULA. You need to use a retail version of leopard DVD. it sounds like the one you've used before is defective. just in case try cleaning the old leopard disk and using it again. also, try cleaning your DVD drive. you can get a DVD cleaner (it's a disk with brushes at the bottom). if all of this fails get a new leopard install DVD.
P.S.since you have access to another macbook, try booting it from your old leopard DVD. If it boots, boot your macbook in target mode, connect it to the other one and install leopard from there.
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