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Hmm... Well the CD isn't like an original, it is just a copy but I'm pretty sure it's the exact disc I used to install the OS originally and I know the CD works, I tried it on a dell computer and it started the CD fine.

It's ok if the HD is toast it didn't have anything important on it. During the boot picker I can see both the HD and the CD. I'm sure of which is which by the way. Partly because under the CD one it says "mac OSX disc 1" and under the hard drive it says the name of the hard drive.

If by cold starting you mean turning on the computer and then holding down the mouse button then I just tried that and the CD didn't eject, just brought me to the same good ol' flashing question mark then finder icon on top of a blue folder. Maybe this isn't how you "cold start" a computer...

I did click on one of the volumes. And there were two options, the HD and the CD. Although the CD disappeared and I haven't seen it again since. It is a bootable CD. I installed OSX on the computer with the CD originally when it worked before. God Awful Stats: 400Mhz Processor 1MB Cache...

I have OSX installed on a very old Powerbook. Well it was working and then I left it for awhile and now it is giving me the good old folder to question mark screen (maybe someone dropped it?). Well I'm not much of a mac user so I looked up all of the different boot key commands and tried to boot...