Updating to Snow Leopard from Mac OS X 10.4.11

Hi,
Can anyone tell me if I can jump to Snow Leopard from my current system of OS X 10.4.11?
Meaning can i skip the whole Leopard 10.5 operating system?
I keep trying to update my iPhone and iTunes but am unable to due to my old operating system. (I think?!).
I've seen the Snow Leopard for $29, is this the one I need to buy?
Thanks for any help at all!

I see
please could you post a link to the agreement that says that?, since I can find no mention of it on/in the packaging.
Perhaps you refer to apple's suggested upgrade route at http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html and similar at the store ?
rather than
Single Use License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you have purchased a Family Pack or Upgrade license for the Apple Software, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.
which is from the agreement at http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx106.pdf

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