Failed upgrade from 10.5.8 (Leopard) to 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

I'm using a 17-inch iMac (specs below) and as fair a can tell it meets the system requirements for running snow leopard. The discs are fine and I've installed it on two other machines in the house, one which is minimum spec.
I've read other peoples posts, even one that had the same problem, but it wasn't resolved. Also I've attempting several installs and each time, it installs partially, gets to the part where it reboots to continue the installation and as soon as it hits the "33 minutes" it says install failed due to error, but gives no details about the error.
Can anyone help?

Why aren't you installing Snow Leopard directly instead of Leopard and then upgrading? Does it fail at the same place? Can you use one of your other Macs on which you have successfully installed Snow Leopard to install onto this computer?
BTW, installing a single-user copy of OS X on more than one computer at the same time is illegal.

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