Updating Old Mac to Mac OS 10.3

hey,
i hope you can all help me because i bought 10.3 over a year ago and i updated my sister's computer to 10.3 from its previous system of 8.6 and it worked fine untill my sister changed it back to 8.6 with the bootable cd and now when i try to reinstall it, i click on "install mac os x" and it askes me to restart so i do so but when the grey screen with the black apple and the swirling thing comes on at the start before the installation it just stops and the swirly thing goes all day the install wont start...any ideas...my sister needs it for her work..so please help
yours garrett ison
p.s thank you

Hi gazza90,
first of all: WELCOME TO THE DISCUSSIONS!
Unfortunately you do not give us any information about the system. We need to now as much as possible about the system (Exact Mac type, processor type, MHz, RAM, current system version, etc.) in order to help!
P.S. Upgrading to 9.2.2 as suggested above is a good idea.

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