Rebuilt iMac on snow leopard will not enable App Store

Hi I have rebuilt my iMac from scratch, installed all updates to get it to 10.6.8 but App Store is still disabled stating that it needs 10.7. 
There are no more updates to get to 10.7 so how can I enable it??
Help would be very much appreciated!!! :-)

Install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1
Then restart your Mac.
The combo should reinstall the App Store for you.

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