Unable to install Mountain lion after defense grade erase

Hello All,
I just sold my 13-inc macbook pro on eBay. As I am paranoid about my privacy, I decided to do a "defense-grade" erase. It took 10 hours after doing a 7 pass process. However, I am unable to install anything on it (Mountain Lion, Lion, Ubuntu). When I try to install Mac OSX I get the error, "Error installing OS X, try reinstalling". Huh??
Please let me know what I should do. Can I not install anymore? Should I get a new one?
Thanks,
Singlebinary
Message was edited by: singlebinary

Here's what I did:
Plugged in my USB drive and started the computer with the option key pressed. I get one choice "Install OS X" which is from my USB drive. After I got an error message, I can cancelled it and under tools selected "Disk Utility". I then selected one partition and the default P table of GUID. So, this has already been done to the drive.
There is no option to select "Reinstall Mac OS X". All I have is the following:
OS X Installer, File, Edit, Utilities, Window.
Under Utilities, I have Disk Utility, Terminal, Network, Restore from Time Machine. I do not have a time machine backup so that does not work either.
Looking at the Installer Log errors, I find the following lines:
OS X Installer application started
1 display(s) found.
@(#) PROGRAM: Install PROJECT:Install-729
@(#) PROGRAM: OS X Installer PROJECT:OSInstaller-419
Harware: MacbookPro8,1 @ 2.40 GHz (x4), 8192 MB RAM
Running OS Build: Mac OS X 10.8
Failed to locate volume with UUID AA4A097D-B85A-37FF-A0A6-8EB66DAEC942
Couldn't find OS X (server) install data.
2013-03-31 07:24:05.685 OS X Installer[317:707] *** WARNING: -- [NSImage CompositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] is deprecated in MACOSX 10.8 and later. Please use - [NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead
Thanks,
Singlebinary

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