I experienced a similar problem with my iMac G5. I wanted to repair the disk and permissions as I like to do about once per month. This was the first time that I was doing this and out of habit, I got down the Panther installation box. I put the CD in and restarted holding the the C key. I got the Apple logo and then the booting stopped and a few pixels on the display went a bit odd. I tried this 3 times before I called Apple. They told me, much to my embarrassment that the minimum OS that my iMac will boot is 10.3.5 and I was trying to boot off of 10.3. So, I went and retrieved the disks that came with the iMac and it booted off THAT CD without any problem.
And since you just brought it up. I thought I would make a test.....I also have a new iBook and I looked just now at the installation disks that came with it. 10.3.5. I just tried to boot off of the original Panther install disks and got the same symptoms as when I tried to use them in my iMac. Since yours is a 1 gig iBook and mine is a 1.2 gig iBook, I tend to think your minimum OS is also higher than 10.3 and therefore the source of the problem you encountered.
If possible you should repair permissions booted from the harddisk. Your install CD is likely and older version of the OS and the system knows how to repair permissions of 3rd party software if booted from the HD
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Clark Martin
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