Clamshell iBook panics with OS X 10.3

[coolaj86]

If it's not broke don't fix it, right?

Well, I was running apple's software update last night on my clamshell iBook on OS X 10.3 [it's been about 2 years since I did that] and my [unsupported] wireless card stopped working. [dummy] I unplugged it and the OS paniced as it was optimizing the disk.

When I restarted I couldn't log into the system. After playing around in single-user mode [but not really knowing what I was doing] I decided to backup my files onto my flash disk and start over.

I pop in my OS X 10.3 cd and it won't load [partially broken cd-rom - it works half the time from the OS and none of the time to boot from].

I go into work with my cds and have them set me up a minimal net install. I formated the drive and the installation seems to go well but then when the system reboots the kernel panics.
panic(cpu 0): Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerBook2,1"

Now, it's been a few years since I bought those CDs but there's a direct correlation between them and the OS X that was working just last night. My OpenFirmware reports
Apple PowerBook2,1 4.1.7f4 BootROM built on 03/20/01 at 17:20:48

My brother has my OS 9, 9.1, OS X 10.0 and 10.1 CDs but seeing as how the CD drive doesn't work so well I don't know if they'll do any good. I don't have firewire and the usb doesn't boot external hard drives or cd.

My next step is try to obtain some OS X 10.2 cds, hope that the server at work will allow them to be used for a net boot and then upgrade to OS X afterwards (the 10.0 full install and 10.1 upgrade CDs that I got with the iBook suggest that I probably didn't install OS X 10.3 the first time onto a blank disc).

Any hints would be greatly appreciated. I just want to get it up enough that I can check my gmail, take notes at school, and ssh into my home machine.