New Intel 160GB SSD Hangs (pinwheel) on Snow Leopard Install

I'm hoping I'm just missing a step and not trying to get a faulty drive going. I just got a new X25 M Intel SSD. First I ran the Intel firmware update tool, and that seemed to go okay. Then I tried putting in the Snow Leopard disk and it just sits there with the pinwheel... It has EFI 1.7 if that helps. Not sure what else to do. It came with a 500GB 7200 RPM drive which runs fine. I'm looking to completely wipe and start over.

Upon further investigation, it appears to be either a faulty DVD or drive... I tried running the DVD with the old drive in and it still just hangs... so I'll bring it to the genius' at Apple tomorrow to see what's going on.

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