Trouble upgrading to Snow Leopard

My iMac is the first one with the Intel Core 2 - I'm guessing 5 of 6 years old. I ordered Snow Leopard anticipating upgrading to Lion and version 10.6.3 will not install. Do I not have the systems requirements needed for Snow Leopard? The specs say:
Intel Core 2 duo
Core i3 or i.5 or i.7 or Xeon processor
I am currently running 10.5.8, have the 2 GHz Intel Core Duo. Memory is 512 MB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRam. I can't find anything in "About This Mac/More Info"
about what the core number is or a Xeon processor.
Thanks

captfred wrote:
No, SL need 1 Gig minimum.
Captfred
In addition the OP's CPU isn't capable of either SL or Lion.

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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6185507
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