Determining Which License Was Used To Install Snow Leopard

A few months ago, my company purchased two Mac Minis with two Snow Leopard Server licenses.
For various reasons, we want to do a clean reinstall on one of the Minis, but we can't remember which license we used on which Mini.
Is there a way to tell from the machine which license was used to install the OS?
Thanks much,
_Josh

Have you checked in Server Admin or System Profiler for the key number? Not sure if it's there, but worth a check. Beyond that, I'd suggest calling Apple Support.

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