Black screen after Apple logo boot from OS X Leopard DVD

Here's the setup:

Macbook: A1181 Core 2 Duo 2.0ghz 1GB RAM

DVD disk: Leopard 10.5 Retail install

Hard drive: dead (spins with clicks).


With regular startup I get the flashing question mark and can hear the failed hard drive click and spin. After getting the DVD to boot in the drive (it doesn't suck it in right away), I get an apple logo and pinwheel like I should, but after about 30 seconds it goes to a black (blank) screen and the DVD spins down, but not all the way. The computer is still on, but nothing happens.

Oddities:

<>If I start it with an iMac 10.4 DVD I can boot to the install screen just fine, but can't install because it's an iMac DVD. I can erase and partition the drive fine (not the dead one, another one I have).

<>Safe mode boot does the same thing, but takes 20 times as long to boot

<>Retail OSX 10.4 DVD does not boot at all, but that one might be for PowerPC computers. I get the flashing question mark folder.

thanks for the feedback.

Here's what I know now.

It isn't the hard drive because I've put 2 other drives in it, one brand new.

It isn't the software because I've tried a lot of disks. The iMac disk I tried wasn't a retail, it is the original software reinstall disk. it's weird that this worked when the others didn't. It is for a Core 2 Duo iMac.

I started the Macbook in safe mode and finally got what I think is the error it is:

Kernel Panic: Unable to find driver for this platform "ACPI". I think that means the SMC isn't working properly, which is why the battery isn't charging and the Macbook boots when plugged in.

I think that also means the notebook is toast, because there's no way to update the power control firmware outside of OS X and I can't boot to OS X. Is there any way I can upgrade or reinstall the firmware from a bootable disk? I think there might be a chance because I can get the 10.4.8 iMac disk to boot. I can also get a 10.4.6 Macbook disk to boot, but it won't install either.