I formated my macbook and now i can't instal os x

Hi
I formatted my macbook 10.6 (the white one) and the process went fine. the problem is when i try to instal the OS X. i put the DVD on the computer but it says 'cannot instal OS X on this computer'.
what should i do?
thank you.

The only reason I can think why the 10.5.6 disk won't work is it's likely marked Disk 2. Disk 1 has the OS on it and is the one which would be required to install the OS your Mac came with.
Since the Mac didn't come with Snow Leopard, the gray disk you have isn't for your Mac and won't work. Purchase the retail Snow Leopard disk from Apple, and that will install. Some points to know:
1) The retail disks do not include software that are on the bundled gray disks, such as Garage Band, iDVD and others. If your gray 10.5.6 disk is marked Disk 2, you should still be able to install those apps from that disk after installing Snow Leopard if you use them.
2) When installing Snow Leopard from the retail disk, make sure to click the Options button and turn on Rosetta, otherwise it won't be installed. That is required to run older PowerPC apps.
3) Lion will not in any way run PowerPC apps directly. You'd have to purchase virtual machine software such as Parallels, and then also purchase Snow Leopard Server to install within the VM in order to run any PPC apps. That's a lot of extra overhead for a 2008 Mac, so if you have no real reason to upgrade to Lion after installing Snow Leopard, don't.
And just to be specifically clear about your Snow Leopard 10.6.x disk. If it looks anything like this:
That's why it doesn't work. It's not for your hardware. The retail disk looks like this and supports a variety of Macs made before its release:

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R.framework
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iLifePageLayout.framework
iLifeSQLAccess.framework
iLifeSlideshow.framework
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.DS_Store
Flash Player.plugin
Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin
Google Earth Web Plug-in.plugin
JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
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RealPlayer Plugin.plugin
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flashplayer.xpt
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com.symantec.uiagent.application.plist
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com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
com.micromat.TechToolProDaemon.plist
com.symantec.MissedTasks.plist
com.symantec.Sched501-1.plist
com.symantec.Sched501-2.plist
com.symantec.avscandaemon.plist
com.symantec.diskMountNotify.plist
com.symantec.navapd.plist
com.symantec.navapdaemonsl.plist
com.symantec.sharedsettings.plist
com.symantec.symSchedDaemon.plist
com.symantec.symdaemon.plist
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Flash Player.prefPane
Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
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