XPsp2 disc will not install-ejects

Boot camp partition process works fine. When install disk is inserted, optical drive starts up, screen flickers to black, then music and grey screen, then disk ejects hanging machine in grey screen. Manual shut down and restart comes up w black screen and message "no bootable disk". Another manual restart w option key to select MAC HD as boot drive and then reselect in System Pref and everything is fine. Happens every time with two different install discs.
XP disk is "Student Media/Work at Home Media" purchased thru the University. Other is "Systems Student Media".
Two calls to support, no help. One guy said "we don't work with that call XP".
Genius bar verified disks were correct and that optical drive and hard drive were functioning "perfectly". Tech said either its' the disk or the operating software and it was not the disk. Said I should reinstall Leopard (Not an upgrade-machine came with it. After consultation said to reinstall just BootCamp. They would not look at the console messages and said they weren't trained in that.
Looked at reinstalling BOOT Camp, but it does not seem to appear as a stand alone on the Leopard Install and did not come up in Applications install, just mail, safari etc.
Console messages show boot camp, then log in window starting security agent, then authorization host invoking mechanism, then security agent invoking mechanism then "security agent[80]: Mechanism Destroy".
I have to believe that this is the problem and am looking at repairing permissions, but from these forums am scratching my head a little about that. Would like to have a better idea of what to do. The IT guys here are few and far between and the medical group cannot support mac anyway. Love the machine, a little disappointed in Apple's responses so far and wonder if any of you might have some advice for an old windows guy who would really like to be converted. Just need it for the business connection with exchange. I promise I will not run it for anything else. Other idea is to go buy Parallels or a commercial XPsp2, but those are shots in the dark at this point. Does sound like a security issue, but don't know for sure what to do.
Thanks for your patience.

The seller may have given you the wrong discs if you have Tiger restore discs. The model number of MacBook you mention (MB062LL/B) came with Leopard and not Tiger. See here: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP12
You need to reinstall by using the Leopard install discs that originally shipped with this Mac. 10.5.0 on your Family Pack DVD is older than what came preinstalled on the MacBook. No Mac computer can run an older OS than what originally shipped with it. Apple has a tech note about this here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186
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