Upgrading to Leopard 10.5.2 from a formated hard disc?

Hello, I got myself in a bit of a jam here, hoping someone can help. Unwisely, I formated my drive in preparation to upgrade to leopard. I backed up all my files except my system foolishly thinking it would be a seamless upgrade. Anyhow, I restarted from the leopard install disc and was greeted by the system message "Mac OS X cannot be installed on the machine". Believing that I had a firmware issue, I burned a firmware update disc from the apple site using another apple computer. I'm not sure if it was a bad burn or what, but the to make matters worse, my Macbook Pro doesn't recognize the disc and cannot eject it. I have tried all the regular stuff like the keyboard eject button on the keybooard, and holding down the mouse button on startup with no luck. So I guess this is a multi-part question, 1st how do I get the cd out of my drive, 2nd - how do I upgrade my firmware, if that is indeed the reason I cannot install leopard. Oh yeah, my 10.4 restore discs are in storage to make matters worse.
Thanks for any tips or advice,
Adam

Hi Adam, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Hmmm, not sure I'd be trying a Firmware update at this point.
Try this...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1149
remove the Battery & AC for a bit if that doesn't work.
Does it boot to Single User Mode, CMD+s, if so try...
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Safe Boot... holding Shift key down at bootup?
Does it boot into Open Firmware with CMDOption+of ?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642
Have you done a PRAM reset...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
Does it boot from the Tiger Install disk?

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