Unable to reformat G4, or to reinstall OS X.3o

My daughter gave me her PowerBook G4 to fix. It quit totally last November, would not even turn on. A few days ago it did finally turn on, but repeatedly said "You need to reboot your computer." Eventually it turned off so she was able to retrieve some information. It will restart ok a few times, then go through 3-4 rounds of the "Need to reboot" messages. She says it had been doing that "forever".
While not certain if the issue is software or hardware, a reformat seems a good idea. So I put in the Panther upgrade cd (this thing was shipped with X.2 although X.3 had recently come out -- the disk was a free upgrade). It keeps telling me that it cannot reformat the drive as a newer version of OS X is on there. It is OS X.3.9. Is this due to firmware upgrades, a bad hard drive, or something I don't know about?

If you have an Upgrade disc then you cannot reformat the drive to install it. An Upgrade disc requires that you have the previous OS X version already installed. You would need to use the original installer disc first to install 10.2.x using Erase and Install. To do that simply boot from the installer disc and follow instructions until you get to the point where you select a destination drive. Click on the Options button and select the Erase and Install option then click on the OK button. Continue with the installation. After you get 10.2.x installed you can then boot from the 10.3 Upgrade disc in order to upgrade to 10.3.x.

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