Installation issues after HDD crash

Hi all!
I´ve posted a few problems the last few days now. last sunday my HDD crashed. after some mucking about I´ve finally got a new drive, and I´ve managed to install OS X again (from the v10.5.7 DVD that came with the MBP) and my leopard is running fine and I WAS very happy again.
Then to my problem:
A couple of weeks ago (a.e. before the crash) I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion. And now, ofcourse, I want to reinstall it. But when I inserted the Snow Leopard upgrade DVD and started the install, the installer crashed telling me it couldent read. I ejected the DVD and found some scratches on the print-side (the "read-side" is fine) This means I cant get the Mac App Store, and with it the Lion upgrade..
My question:
Is there any clever way I havent tought about to get the Snow Leopard upgrade, or maybe just go straight for the Lion?
also a question beside this problem:
can anyone recomend a data recovery app? pref. a free one..
thanks up front!
TMT
(PS. if any of you live in Oslo and want to borrow me an upgrade DVD I will be a man)

There is no real free data recovery application. Though there are free data backup programs*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
As for upgrading directly to Lion, you can buy the USB Flash Drive version of Lion. Unfortunately this does require erasing your hard drive yet again, and recovering the data from your backup if you make a clone backup. See other pitfalls about upgrading to Lion before you venture down that road*:
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html#LION

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