Won't Boot - Tried Everything I Know

My B & W iMac with CD slot won't boot up. I get chime and then blinking ? alternating with folder icon and spinning sound.
I've tried:
holding shift down
booting from 8.6 bootable CD holding C down
zapping PRAM (after this I got the chime back)
unplugging everything including keyboard & mouse
unplugging rom power
holding down X
booting from OS X CD holding C down
I gave up for a while so the iMac has not been hooked to power for a couple months (bought laptop PC) but now I need old tax files. I don't have original install CD but I've updated to 9.2.1 I think. But the CDs I have may not be appropriate (copied from friends to try).
I don't think I was doing anything risky when it froze originally. I am not too experienced in solving any problems so please answer with beginner language.
Please help!!
iMac G3 Slot Mac OS 9.2.x

Hi Texas Mac Man!
I did not update firmware when I originally looked into upgrading to OS X because there was some incompatibility problem I read about when reading about firmware so I decided against upgrading. My daughter has a newer iMac with OS X so I tried a copy of her disks to see if I could get it to boot up. So I don't believe the OS X is on the iMac but I'm not positive.
Looks like it will take me a little while to read through the tutorial and find which battery and get it but I won't mark this answered just yet.
I am very happy to have heard from a local Mac person!! I didn't know where to go for help. Are you a service person or just a helpful person? If I can't get it working, I will need to go to someone who can fix it.
Thanks!!
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