Upgrade 10.5.4, blue screen, tried Support suggestions - Now Stuck

I have a G5 (dual 1.8) and attempted the upgrade to 10.5.4. There wasn't enough room on my primary hd, so I pointed the install to a second installed identical drive. I got the blue screen after install. I searched support and found: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1545
I tried A (fire wire to laptop) and couldn't find the file. I made the mistake of ejecting the OSX disk when it appeared in the Finder window (out of habit). Still the blue screen. I then tried C and all commands seemed to work. Still blue screen. I now want to try B (Archive Install), but the OSX disk is no longer in the optical drive. I don't know how to get it in and I don't know how to interrupt startup without it there. I'm a bit of a novice here, so I hope I didn't miss something obvious late at night. All help is appreciated. Thanks.

This might work. There's a little hole underneath your optical drive on the front. Hard to see. Insert a straightened paper clip into the hole and the cd/dvd tray should pop out a little bit. Grab the end of the tray and pull it out fully. Now put in your disk and when you start up the tray will close and you'll have the disk in the machine to start up from when you press and hold down "C". Might want to perform a Disk Utility check first when it starts up from the disk and then archive and install.
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