Upgrade MacBook 2,1 to Snow Leopard issues

hello folks
over the holidays i took on the task of upgrading my 91-year-old fearless mom's aging MacBook (running Tiger OS X 10.4.11) so that she can use FaceTime to chat with her kids, grandkids and great-grandkids. since Snow Leopard is the farthest she can go without hacking (though Lion seems possible) i ordered a Snow Leopard Install DVD from Apple and 4 gig of RAM and an SSD drive from Other World Computing. the SSD was a 120 GB OWC Mercury Electra 3g SATA II - recommended by OWC for this particular MacBook model. i ordered their upgrade bundle, which came with an external USB enclosure for the old drive. installation of the memory and HD was a snap. to cover any possible gotchas i also ran a clone of her old HD using SuperDuper prior to doing the HD upgrade. once everything was in place i booted up to the clone and formatted and restored her data to the SSD. booted to the internal SSD and had a very peppy MacBook. phase two is where things got very strange: when i booted to the OS X 10.6.3 Install DVD and started the process of installing Snow Leopard i found that the SSD drive was not being found by Disk Utility - i could see the CD drive and my external HD with her clone, but no SSD. since there is no way to quit the installer (that i could find) i forced a shutdown and did some research. the SSD is formatted as GUID and extended (journalled), S.M.A.R.T status ok. i'm leery of pulling the SSD out and attempting to install SL on an external drive, due to the age of the machine and my own thumb-fingeredness. any suggestions would be welcomed. i have to head back home tomorrow, so likely i won't be able to finish this till our next visit, but i'd love to figure this out.
cheers
bruce

If it was a Core Duo this could be the problem:
http://store.apple.com/us/question/answers/product/MC573Z/A/i-have-a-macbook-2-g hz-intel-core-2-duo-running-104-if-i-buy…
". Be careful when you upgrade from 10.4. The 10.4 hard drive is probably formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Snow Leopard requires the hard drive to be formatted as a GUID. A Mac OS Extended drive will have to be wiped/reformatted/partitioned to get to GUID."

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