If I restore my MacBook, will I lose software updates I've done (Snow Leopard/Mavericks) and be back to the original system (Leopard)?

I am selling my Aluminum Macbook (late 2008 model). I would like to restore it to factory settings before doing so. A few years ago I updated from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and today to Mavericks. If I restore the computer, will it go back to Leopard?? And if so, will I be able to get it back to Mavericks if I don't have the Snow Leopard CDs? Thanks.

Weird ;-)
It looks like you did Internet recovery (i.e. command-option-R) instead of regular (command-R).
Actually, one thing that may be an issue here: Your machine is from 2008.  Machines shipping in 2011 and later got the recovery partition, and some older versions got it as well by means of a software update.  However I don't know if that update extended all the way back to machines that shipped in 2008 or not.  This could be an issue here...

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