Having a bit of a nightmare with this laptop i have bought

Hey, so i bought a second hand macbook pro 15 inch 2009 yesterday, it is to act as a sister computer to my imac for producing music on
The guy who sold it to me sold me it with mountain lion on and final cut and some other programmes, however i didn't want mountain lion as i know a lot of my third party plug ins are not yet updated to work with it
I want to have just lion on this laptop, so i have restored it, by using the original install disks back to its original state (i did do a time machine back up to a third party hard drive for future reference)
However this laptop is now not letting me go past OSX 10.5.8, im guessing you had to buy 10.6? however i have already purchased lion on my imac and this computer was updated to mountain lion, does anybody know of a way i can get this laptop updated without forking out a lot of money? i want to achieve it to lion (which i have already purchased and is a downgrade from the operating system it was on), when i typed in the 10.6.0 software a lot of torrents came up, which i definately do not want to use,
Thank you for any help!

Right i understand now, thank you very much for the replies/ clearing things up.
i know you say it is only $19, is this a discounted rate for the US? i am in the UK and i am looking on amazon some of the prices are £49-89 which seems a little steep?
Also, can i just ask, my desktop imac is currently running lion, i am considering upgrading that to mountain lion eventually when i know my plug ins work, with this macbook pro i ran a time capsule back up on it to a third party external hard drive, as the guy sold it with final cut, office and some other software, when i ran the was running the restore i tried to boot it from the time capsule just to see what happend and i got an error message like 'the operating system from time capsule is newer than this computer please update it'
If i was to upgrade my imac to mountain lion, and restore it with the time capsule i burnt from this laptop on the external hard drive, will this work and put the software etc. on to my imac? or will it cause a horrible mess?
Thanks again

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