Can NOT install "Installation Disc" ---OS 10.5 --- on 2007 MacBook

Trying to reinstall the OS on my Granddaughter's MacBook. It is a late (December)2007 model White MacBook. Model 3.1
I am trying to reinstall the OS by using the Installation Disks that came with the MacBook
Disks are OSX version 10.5.4.
However, when I insert it to install I see a onscreen prompt to select the language and I select English.
Then briefly I see a prompt that says "Preparing Installation" that is followed immediately by _*"Mac OSX cannot be installed on this computer"*_
I am baffled by this, what do I do now ????
I checked the hard drive and it is 100% readable by removing it and then using MacDrive on a PC and as an additional try I also formated it using MacDrive too.
_*Can anyone PLEASE help me out of this DEAD END!*_
My Apple/Mac experience so far is POOR!
Thanks,
Joe

Mac OS X 10.5.4 was released in June 2008. By June 2008, the Macbook 4,1 was the production model. So if your granddaughter's MacBook is from six months earlier, its install discs were an earlier version.
If what you're holding are gray discs that say 10.5.4, those are install discs that shipped with some other computer, not the MacBook in question, which is why they won't work.
You have a few choices: 1, call Apple Sales (800 MY APPLE in the US) and buy a full retail package of Leopard from them ($129). 2. Call AppleCare (800 275 2273 in the US) and, with your serial number, you can request replacement install discs specific to that MacBook, probably for a small fee. 3. But a new retail version of Snow Leopard ($29 in the US) and install that.
It would be good to back up your granddaughter's data before installing.

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