Installing Snow Leopard on "clean" Mac

Hey.
I'm new to mac, I bought my Macbook Pro in late Aug 2009.
I have the "normal" Leopard witch was installed when I bought the mac.
I have been using PC for 15 yrs soo I'm not really familiar to how thing works in Mac so I hope someone out there can help me.
I have bought the 9 Euro upgrade dvd for Snow Leopard and I'm planning to upgrade my mac from Leopard to Snow Leopard (heard it was fast). The thing is, does it "just" upgrade the Leopard to Snow Leopard or does it make a "clean" installation (PC terms) witch erase the Leopard and all my files and then install the Snow Leopard?
I wish to have a completely clean installation on Mac Snow Leopard, is this possible with the 9 Euro Upgrade DVD?
Please help me!

Elando wrote:
I wish to have a completely clean installation on Mac Snow Leopard, is this possible with the 9 Euro Upgrade DVD?
You can, but probably not by the method mentioned by Barney, if by the "9 Euro" DVD you mean a disc you got via the Snow Leopard Up-To-Date program. I am not certain about this, but it is likely that these discs will only allow you to update an existing installation of Leopard to Snow Leopard.
So, to do a clean install in this case, you would first restore your Mac to out-of-the-box state with the original Leopard discs that came with it, then use your up-to-date disc to upgrade that to Snow Leopard.

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