Update Trouble: Target Disk Installation?

Hey everyone... I've been trying to fix my laptop's installation of Tiger 10.4.6 for days now. I've gone through registry verification and repair. Hard drive repair... and even tried running external bootable cd solutions that only actually aggravated the situation as now my Powerbook G4 won't even get past the pinwheel and gray apple screen.
I managed to save my files from the harddrive so I know it's working fine, this through target disk mode, but when I tried to install the update to 10.4.6 again through target disk mode it promptly informed me I couldn't. What am I doing wrong? Is there a way around this problem? Or would any of you recommend another solution entirely?

Well, I ended up taking it into shop after trying just about everything to repair it and they told me it looked like the logic board was damaged, which surprised all of us as the notebook is fine and had a bizarre but steady decline into disfunctionality from last thursday to this wednesday night. If it had been software, I thank all of you here in the discussion boards because it's likely it would have been solved with your help, but it was hardware. Wee... anyway, case closed.

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