Unable to boot from CD on new MacBook Pro

I'm attempting to boot from a Snow Leopard CD on my new (I5) MacBook Pro so that I can get to the Disk Utility to do some work on the hard disk. When using eith Cmd-C or Cmd-Option to select the CD for boot, the system hangs on the screen that has the apple and stops reading from the CD. Has anyone else had this problem, or am I doing something wrong?

dptom: What I told you is only true until a newer retail OS X installer disc is released. It has always been the rule for Macs, with extremely rare exceptions, that they can only boot to a version and build of the Mac OS that is at least as recent as the one they were shipped with. When and if there is an OS X 10.6.6 or later retail DVD available, your machine will boot to it with no problem. Until then, there is no retail DVD containing a newer version and build than your shipped-with disc contains, so that's the only disc you can use to start the machine.

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