Snow leopard dvd doesn't work

I bought snow leopard DVD but it seems corrupted. I put inside the Mac and it spit it out immediately. (I tried both sides ... :-) ... many times).
Other CDs and DVDs works fine.
My question is: since I have an original version and a serial number printed somewhere (I hope) on the Disk or on the package, is there a place where download the Mac OS Snow Leopard from?
I have Mac OS X 10.5.8
3.06 Ghz Intel Core Duo processor
2 GB 800 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM

No, you can't download Snow Leopard.  You'll need to contact Apple and they will replace the disk.

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