Upgrading 10.3.9 to Tiger Problem

My school has recently been donated a G4 with 10.3.9.  I'm trying to install a retail version of Leopard, but I seem to have a problem.  After instering theDVD and restarting, my computer simply hangs.  I get nothing.  10 minutes goes by and still there appears to be no action.  The DVD makes a few noises early on and then does nothing.  My monitor shows no signal.
I just upgraded the firmware for the superdrive.
I brought it to my apple store. They tried to install it via a firewire external dvd.  same problem. Being such an old box, I'd have to pay for further diagnostics.
I'm at a loss.  I meet the specs, but Leopard just won't install
Suggestions please
Rich

10.5 retail is not available for "download."   It is available as a retail installer disc which looks likeand does not say Upgrade, Dropin, or OEM.
Newer retails not working is odd, because they should work.      You may just have had bad luck.
"Download" is the English term for getting the actual files over the internet.
When you get the CD or DVD and install the contents, that's called an "install" or "installation" depending on how the sentence is written.
If you understood those terms, saying "download" suggests getting it over the internet, which is illegal, unless you purchase from a website that actually has copies to distribute legal copies of the DVD by mail, but then again, what you are doing is installing from DVD, not downloading it.

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