I have osx 10.6 installed, need to reinstall: says osx cannot be installed on this computer

A friend has purchased a used macbook, by searching the serial number it originally had osx 10.5. It currently has osx 10.6.8 installed. she wishes to start fresh, i have 10.6.3 discs that have worked before, when i boot into the disc it simply says that osx cannot be installed on this mac. this is said when booting into disc or trying to click the install with the disc showing in finder
it is a 2.2ghz with 1gb of ram. specs shouldn't be an issue as it is running it fine now, and can support up to 10.7.
any thoughts?

You need to use a retail DVD and not a different Mac model's original disks.
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