I've been silly and must have missed something...please help!?

Hi there,
Right, deep breath.
I've had the snow leopard install disk for months (upgrading from 10.5.8) and have not been able to install for various reasons.. I get constant error msg's that seem to vary with install attempts. Anyway my focus is not on them today as I installed successfully for the first time... eh not quite.
I got myself an external HD and backed everything up using superduper. worked great. Then I booted to the snow leopard dvd, did a fresh install by clearing my drive in disk utility and hooray! I was navigating around SL for the first time. But it was brief.
I then restarted and booted from my external drive and used superduper to restore all files back onto my internal HD and after hours waiting I restarted to find I'm stuck again with 10.5.8!!!!!!
Now I know I must of done something really quite stupid here but how can I do pretty much what I described but keeping SL the next time around. It's 4am here and i cant think straight so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jason.

I am not sure if got all the details.. when you boot from the external you will be on 10.5.8 b/c that is what was backed up now when restore the information it is probably an option so you won't restore the boot/system files have you checked all the options?

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