Can i erase everything on my macbook without.....

2 questions:
Is there a way to do the following?
1. erase everything on my macbook except my itunes account with my music and purchases?
2. A friend gave me her install 10.6.1 disk and i was wondering if its something i should install and if so can i do that and erase everything on my macbook except my itunes account with my music and purchases?

Hi....Welcome to Apple Discussions...
1...use 'iTunes Help' from the upper menu bar while iTunes is the active application to give you options for backing up your iTunes Library ie...an external drive or burn to CD's/DVD's.....type "Backup" into the 'search' box...
2...From a legal standpoint OSX is only to be installed on one computer at a time (unless she has a "Family" license) ....so if 10.6 is on her Mac from that install DVD it would be wrong...
....From a technical standpoint if the install disk is a machine specific disk (shipped with her mac) it would probably not work right in your MacBook...(only the Retail versions will work in a broad spectrum of Mac's)

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