Upgrading multiple Macs at home with Snow Leopard

I have five Macs for home use I have bought in the last 15 months, all running Version 10.5.8 (switched the entire family over). Apple sent me two upgrade disks for $9.95 each for the latest two Apple purchases (iMac and MacBook). Can I use the upgrade disks on any of my machines or are they specific to my last two purchases? Do I need to buy more upgrades for my other three or can I reuse the disks? Seems a bit of a rip to have to buy separate upgrade disks for all given all the money I have sent Apple over the last 15 months.

You can upgrade all the machines for a $49 family pack; if you have 5 machines you can use the two $9.95 discs as well as the family pack on the other 3.
That said, the $19.90 you spent on the "up to date" disks was somewhat of a waste when the $49.95 family pack would cover 3 or 5 machines.

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