I have a 2008 13" Mac Book and want to put a solid state drive in it

I installed Lion firdt and then Clones my hard drive to the solid state drive but it has issues.
I tried to do a clesn install on the solid state drive but the install will not complete

The macbook originally came with OSX Leopard, which I upgradedto Snow Leopard.
I then increase the Ram to the full 4Gig and then upgraded the OS to LIon OS 10.7.5
I decided to swap the original hard drive with a Kingston SSDNow 100V+.
I used Carbon Clone to clone the original Hard drive and swapped the drives.
The issue I am having is that the sytem freezes and I get the pinwheel and have to push the power button to shutdown. The sytems restarsts but I never know when I will get the pinwheel.
I have taken the SSD out and put the original drive back in.
I did try to do a clean install onto the SSD by reformaytting the SSD but at the end of the install the installer loops back to the beginning, or I get the pin wheel again.
Is it possible that the Kingston Drive is not compattible?
Thanks for the help.
Jim

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