I think this has also been mentioned on here somewhere, but what you have is an OEM license. That disc is licensed for use only on the machine it came with. In other words, you can only use it on that particular 20" iMac and on no other computer.

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You're not paying attention. He said it came packed with an Intel Mac but boots on a G4. If there is PPC code on there and it boots, there may be a way to trick the installer into putting it on the hard drive. The big question is, why did Apple put PPC code on an install disc that shouldn't support PPC code at all?

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The issue here isn't code on the disc, it's the legality of this. You are licensed to use the disc only on the computer it is tied with if you've got an OEM license. The Intel Mac CD is licensed only for use on that Intel Mac.

As for why the code is on that disc, I'm thinking it may just be a mistake. Perhaps Apple didn't change everything on this particular disc when they updated it for a newer model. It's sort of like how 6.0.8 can boot a PowerBook 100, I guess.