Reset Macbook and now I can't re-install Snow Leopard

My mom bought me a late 2009 white Macbook three weeks ago. It was working fine the first few days until I decided to purchase Lion and then two days later it crashed and I had to erase the hard drive and reinstall everything. It took me about a day to fix and reinstall everything, but this time I didn't install Lion. A week later my computer crashed again and I tried to erase the hard drive again and re install Snow Leopard, but this time nothing will install. I'm trying to avoid the hour drive to the closests Apple Store, so if anybody knows how I could fix this it would be great! I'm desperate at this point :/

I actually tried installing the disc again so I could get the message it gives me, but it seems to be installing with no problem. But the message I was getting before was somewhere along the lines "Install failed please restart computer" and then at the bottom it would say to go to disk utilities and repair the disk and I would do that and try to reinstall, but the same message would pop up.

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