My Leopard DVD is damaged

Hi,
My first language is spanish, so please excuse any grammar mistakes.
I've bought a Macbook White on April/2008, and it came with 2 Discs of "Mac OSX Install". and a DVD of "Mac OS X Leopard", but for some reason my Leopard DVD is damaged and doesn't let me start the installation. So, I'm in a big problem. I have Tiger right now but I need to install some applications that need a Mac Osx 10.5+ and that is not my case.
How can I get a copy of MY Leopard DVD? I've search on your support site and the only suggestion I've found is to purchase the DVD again. I DO NOT want to purchase my OWN dvd AGAIN, since when I bought my macbook I also bought the licence of my OSx, and I think it's no fair to pay for MY OWN LICENCE TWICE. Do you have any other suggestion for my problem?

Might be related, if your hard drive is a 1TB drive,it could be a Seagate drive.
The drives are known to fail and your iMac maybe covered for free replacement under the Apple's Seagate hard drive replacement program until April 12 of this year.
I Believe the 2009 models are covered under this replacement warranty.
You can find out if you are eligible here.
http://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive/
Good Luck!

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... tried a procedure of renaming the kernel found on the net ...
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I'm really angry about this, got this Macbook since less than one year and it crashes after an autoupdate ...
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