Trying to update firmware on old Imac

I have an old Imac DV Special Edition, slot loading
I am currently running on OS X 10.2.8.
I bought the Tiger OS X.4 software, and am attempting to install it when it says I need to update my firmware.
When I run software update, all I get is Ipod Updater to load.
How do I find out what firmware I need, when I look on the Apple website, I find old stuff, I upgraded to 10.2 in 2003
and the firmware updates go back to 1999, before I even bought the machine, how do I find out what updates to firmware I need?
Apple's web pages for the old machines are not very clear, I know I'm probably asing for too much, maybe time to buy a new machine.

Unfortunately you can't update the firmware in OSX. The idea was that it should be applied prior to any OS X upgrade. You should boot into/install OS 9 and the update to this version: 4.1.9 (link). 
Do you have plenty of RAM? Tiger will want it.
regards
mrtotes

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