I'm trying to load the Snow Leopard disc into my older 20" monitor but it isn't working...

Hi, I'm old school still using the OS 10.5.8 on my 20" monitor iMac, I've purchased the snow leopard upgrade but the drive won't accept it and spits the disc out so how can I get the drive to read it?
I put the disc in and about 30 seconds later it spits the disc.  I've attempted this procedure 8-10 times.  Obviously, I need to upgrade so I ordered the Snow Leopard through Apple and they sent me the disc. 
HELP! and Happy Holidays!!!

Your optical drive may be out of alignment or the laser may be dirty or the disc you received is defective.
What you can try is to use a different Mac that can read the DVD, if it's not defective. Get an 8 GB or larger USB flash drive. Partition it GUID and format it Mac OS Extended, Journaled. Clone the mounted DVD to the flash drive using Disk Utility.
Drive Partition and Format
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 Apply button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
  1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
  2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
  3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
  4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
       it to the Destination entry field.
  5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
      the Source entry field.
  6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the USB flash drive. Source means the mounted DVD on the Desktop.

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