How do I put Snow Leopard on my new SSD?

Hello. I have been having nothing but problems trying to install a new harddrive in my mid-2009 Macbook pro. I returned my Intel SSD that was apparently not compatible with my computer and just purchased a Crucial M4 256GB SSD.
To put it very simply, I run 10.6.8 on my Macbook pro. All I want to do is do a clean install of my OS on the new HD. Nothing else. I don't care about any of my files or anything, they are all backed up and will be fine. I just want the new SSD to be the same OS I've been using and that's it.
I have tried booting from the startup disk, and it does not work! I've already had what appeared to be a kernel panic during one of the attempts.
I have a SATA USB cable hookup, and the SSD is formated in disk utility. All is well, but no matter what I do, I can not just get the freaking OS to go on the harddrive and boot. I have tried Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper, both of which did exactly what I DIDN'T want and transfered all my crap from my 500GB HDD to the 256GB SSD... so naturaly it overloaded and didn't boot (many many hours later....).
Can someone please help me? I am getting nowhere. I just moved and don't even know where half my belongings are, so I don't have any access to blank disks, USB drives or any of the things I normally have sitting on my desk. I just want the darn SSD to boot and be a fresh start.

If you are still booting from the old drive:
Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Now you will have to boot from your Snow Leopard DVD in order to install it on the SSD:
Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple
logo appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.

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