Cannot install 10.6 to new hdd

My hdd was on the way out so ordered a new Hitachi 1TB - it arrived this morning and installed easily. However, also ordered a new 10.6 Snow Leopard CD from apple store in hope to boot machine from it and make fresh install to new HDD. Booting machine, holding c and it buzzes and whirs for a bit and then ejects the CD. I then get a flashing folder icon with a '?' in it. I do not have my original 10.5.5 Leopard discs as they on way to me in shipping from old house. If its my CD drive that is playing up - is there another way to get my new CD of 10.6 onto my new blank hdd that is installed in my machine?? I have also tried to boot from a friends Tiger install disc - it does the same.

Hi Guys, these are great tips etc - thank you, but I think we're missing the main point, that being that I cannot boot my iMac from the SL installation CD - I get nothing holding down C or 'Option' etc - it just ejects it, so I think I may have a problem with the CDROM. My only other machine is my Macbook Pro, running Tiger.
Q: is it possible to boot my iMac with BLANK HDD from any other device USB/FW connected??? You see, the HDD has NO OS on it and the CDROM is not working either. Could I boot the iMac using the SL installation CD in a USB connected CDROM drive???
Last resort I guess is to take it all to bits again, get SL on the new HDD by some other method and put it back in again.
Any thoughts??

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