Reinstalling without discs?

I need to reinstall snow leopard but cannot find my install discs; i only have the original Tiger ones on hand. Do I need to completely repurchase Snow Leopard? Just to be clear; Snow Leopard is installed, but needs to be reinstalled as there seems to be some corruption. Help!

Yes you will have to buy the 10.6 Snow Leopard white retail disks online someplace like Amazon or even eBay, perhaps OtherWorld Computing or other Mac related websites as your machine came with Tiger.
The Snow Leopard grey disks that come with a new Mac (that had Snow Leopard installed at the factory) can be reordered from Apple proving the serial number of the Mac and waiting for them to be delivered.
Having a Carbon Copy Cloner of your Snow Leopard boot drive would have come in assistance here, as well as making copies of Snow Leopard install disks
http://www.walterjessen.com/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-leopard-install-disc/

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