Installing Snow Leopard 10.6.3 from 10.5.8

I am installing Snow Leopard on my Macbook 10.5.8. The DVD starts to install ok but when it restarts the system, the computer ejects the disk and the installation cancels and i'm back to the beginning. Any help?

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Processor Speed:          2.2 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          4 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Bus Speed:          800 MHz
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SMC Version (system):          1.24f3
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