Have os 10.5, and want to install Lion? pay for 2 upgrades?

so i have os x 10.5.8, and want to install Lion...
Requirements are os x 10.6 (snow leapard), and thus this is $$ upgrade
before i purchase the Lion upgrade?
Is Apple providing any assistance?

I've personally installed Lion on my iMac from a Recovery Partition to a partition on a hard drive that is blank.
I did notice however that the computer paused during the initial stages of the install for a "Checking with apple for your computers elegibility to upgrade" screen.  It appeared to be checking whether or not it would complete the install based on what?  I'm not sure. My iMac initially came with 10.5 installed and it still worked...  I did however have Snow Leopard installed prior to installing lion, then breaking it and reinstalling.
I'm not sure what it was checking on TBH.  But in any case, I'm running Lion on my iMac.
-Graham

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