Late 2007 model Incompatible with snow leopard?

Hello. I have a White Late 2007 model (the first with the x3100) macbook running at 2.0 ghz, with 2 gb ram and a 120gb hard drive.
After installing 10.6 from the retail Mac boxed set My screen backlight started to randomly die. Eventually it got so bad that the backlight would just flash on start up and go black after that.
Last night i loaded the Mac os X 10.5 retail DVD. and Low and behold, Backlight works Perfectly.
I now have the problem that It will not let me install Leopard. I have used disk utility to wipe the hard drive clean. But the installer gets to the "Use english for main language" section and then after pressing the continue button, says that "Mac os X cannot be installed on this computer"
i press "ok" and load the installer log
which says that the error is something along the lines of "installer tried to create a new folder with UID=0" or something about a new folder and UID=0
I have tried the retail 10.5.0 dvd, the Original 10.5.0 restore disks that came with the macbook, the 10.5.2 Imac restore disks and the 10.6 retail and restore disks that came with both the boxed set and the 13"macbook pro. Same problem. "Mac os X Cannot Be installed on this computer"
Before i installed Snow leopard i did have a leopard and ubuntu 9 installation on the machine, and deleted both via a fresh install.
Any ideas?. I have tried reseting the PMU/PRAM, no effect.

Hey Sajaki and happy 1 year anniversary -
Sajaki wrote:
I now have the problem that It will not let me install Leopard. I have used disk utility to wipe the hard drive clean.
Have you formatted the drive? Sounds like you erased the drive but you haven't formatted it. In Disk Utility, under the Partition Tab, you need to select a number of partitions (usually 1) from the drop-down where it says Current. Give the drive a name (usually Macintosh HD). Next select GUID Partition Table by clicking the Options button located just under the hard drive graphic. When you do all of this, hit the Partition button at the bottom and let it do its thing. When you did the Erase, did you choose the Mac Extended (Journaled) format?
If this is unclear, there is a section on preparing a new drive in [*This Tutorial*|http://www.macinstruct.com/node/130] that has pictures and explanations.
Once you have it partitioned, you should be able to install off of the restore disks from your MacBook.

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