Re-Installing Snow Leopard on a mid 2011 iMac

I have accidentally wiped the hard drive of a mid 2011 imac 27" there was no install DVD provided for this machine and a retail Snow Leopard disk will not boot, apparently I need 10.6.8 and the retail disk is only 10.6.3 is there any solution to this dilemma?

The machines (we have more then one) all came with SL but no install disks. When I boot with cmd-R it comes up with a globe icon and message - apple.com/support - 6002F. I am now convinced that these machines were so close to the Lion release and were probably intended for Lion but were shipped with SL. I have now tried everthing including Lion install from USB recovery stick created an another SL to Lion machine and this works to the point where after downloading all 3GB of Lion it just goes back to the beginning again! I tried 3 times - good thing we have fast broadband and it failed every time! I then tried restoring a SL and even a Lion clone from another similar Mac but kernel panic every time, tomorrow I will try the retail "Lion on USB" option but it looks like its off for repair as far as this MAC is concerned.

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