How to install hard drive Macbook Pro 10.6.3

I have a Macbook Pro Os X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard. I was told that I have a failed hard drive. It costs about $195 for repair at my local shop. I read that I can purchase my own hard drive from BestBuy and have geek squad to install it. The guy says it costs $50 for installation but about $180 to reinstall the system. My question is....is there a good link you could give me for directions to how I can install my own hard drive? Also, when he says install the whole system, what does that mean. I already have my installation disks that came with my Mac. The hard drive that's currently in my Mac is a Western Digital 250GB. Thanks in advance!!!

Thanks for your reply. I let it run and it eventually said that Mac OS X can't be installed on the computer. And that the installer could not install the necessary support files. This was all done on a brand new hard drive and was the exact error given on my previous hard drive. (The one that I was told had failed). I tried installing from a clone of the CD on a USB but it stalls at the blue screen and eventually has a rotating cursor. Do you recommend anything further?? I would appreciate your help, greatly.

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mbltccmbp:~ trevorcobb$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         501.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                124.0 GB   disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data                         115.5 GB   disk0s5
   6:                 Linux Swap                         8.5 GB     disk0s6
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         249.2 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
/dev/disk2
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   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh SSD          *248.9 GB   disk2
/dev/disk3
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   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.3 GB     disk3
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              8.3 GB     disk3s1
/dev/disk4
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   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *501.5 GB   disk4
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           2          32         Pri GPT table
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      409640   980102336      2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
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1222961152   225603584      5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1448564736    16582656      6 GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
1465147392        1743
1465149135          32         Sec GPT table
1465149167           1         Sec GPT header
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          2         32         Pri GPT table
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487127592    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
488397128          7
488397135         32         Sec GPT table
488397167          1         Sec GPT header
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Disk: /dev/disk0          geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
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#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE    0   0   1 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: DA   25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 980102336] <Unknown ID>
3: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 980511976 -     262144] HFS+
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 980774912 - 242186240] HPFS/QNX/AUX
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Signature: 0xAA55
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Hmmm, looks like this should do the trick?
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