Installation of Mac OS 10.6.2 on my MacBook

Hello,
I have just acquired a MacBook with 2.2 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 4 GB of RAM DDR2 and a HDD of 112 GB. It currently has Mac OS 10.5.8 installed on it.
I'm trying to install Mac OS Snow Leopard on it with the original CD.
When I try to plug it, click on the Mac Os install and go for example to Utilities it says: "Mac OS X Snow leopard can not be installed on this computer".
If I reboot and boot from CD, it says the same plus it has all the utilities from the Utilities Menu disabled.
My partition Map Scheme is GUID, connection type Internal.
What can I do in order to install Snow Leopard?

amunsol wrote:
I'm trying to install Mac OS Snow Leopard on it with the original CD.
What do you mean "trying to install Mac OS Snow Leopard on it with the original CD"?
You have to buy a Snow Leopard upgrade disc which costs about $30. You can't install Snow Leopard without buying it.
Try here and see if they have it. I can't read Romanian so this is the best I can give you.
http://www.apple.com/ro/
If that doesn't work try the regular apple site and see if you can buy it and have it shipped to Romania.
http://www.apple.com/

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