in an apple underground community i read of several people trying to run downloaded versions of Tiger from the web and most without success. One person reported kernal panic errors loading Tiger, with a "failure to load Powerbook5,2 drivers"
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Apple gives each machine a unique ID and that's what that is.
I forgot which thread it was explained in (tried to search), but this same topic came up just before the WWDC when people were speculating on a G5 iMac.
It's nothing, please move along.