Upgrading to Snow Leopard - CD won't run - need to upgrade for iCloud

I wanted to update my wife's MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard from Leopard, and upon inserting the CD, it wouldn't load. I tried other CDs in her drive and they loaded up fine, and I tested inserting the Snow Leopard into my iMac, and it loaded up fine as well.
So I tried copying the contents of the Snow Leopard disc onto my wife's machine from my iMac, and after finishing copying & double-clicking on the Install icon now on my wife's harddrive, I got a message saying something like:
"You are not able to install this software (or Snow Leopard) in this way. Please install the software from the original CD", or something to that effect.
Nevertheless, I can't use the CD to install it on my wife's MacBook Pro, for unknown reasons, and I can't run the installer via the copied software from the CD.
How do I go about updating/upgrading this computer then to Snow Leopard? I want to install Snow Leopard, and get it updated the 10.6.8 so that my wife will be able to convert her .Me account over to iCloud and still use her email (primarily).
Thanks!

Firstly, are you using a retail Snow Leopard DVD?
If you are and the DVD won't load in the superdrive, it is possible to remotely install from your Mac, but not that way.
In the Applications/Utilities folder, you'll find an item called "Remote Install OS X".
Insert the DVD into your superdrive, open the utility and follow the instructions.
Here's a Knowledgebase article on the subject.
Although it's intended for installing on MBA or Mini without optical drives, other users have reported that it works with other Macs, too.
As always, the target must meet the minimum requirements for SL;

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So far so good (I asked because you've posted in the forum for PPC iMacs…).
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Well, yes, if your Mac meets the requirements, you can afford to erase the drive completely, & don't mind paying $10 more for Lion on a Flash stick than Snow Leopard/10.6 on DVD & Lion/10.7 download from the App Store is.
Snow Leopard/10.6.x Requirements...
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    * 5GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least)
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    * Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
    * Some features require Apple’s MobileMe service; fees and terms apply.
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http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
It looks like they do still have it:
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256

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Here's a cheap SATA external hard drive case on eBay http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-5-SATA-HDD-HARD-DRIVE-EXTERNAL-ENCLOSURE-CASE-BOX-/120 636286623?pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item1c167ba69f
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2 things: iPhoto isn't automatically copying all my imported photos into an iPhoto album folder AND ever since i upgraded my MacBook 120GB to Snow Leopard, iTunes won't recognize my iPhone.

So i have a 120GB MacBook that's about 4 years old (just updated to Snow Leopard--been working in Iraq, i'm a little behind).
Never had a problem with it.
I also have an iPhone 4 which i've had for about a year (up-to-date software as of about a month ago).
Never had a problem with it.
I've had iTunes for years of course (up-to-date).
Never had a problem.
1.
Now my iTunes won't recognize my iPhone since the Snow Leopard update.
iPhoto will recognize my phone, but iTunes won't.
Went through all the preferrences and i can't find anything that isn't set properly.
iTunes Helper is used during startup.
Everything seems fine.
Any help?
2.
I use a WD external hard drive to back my Mac up every week or so.
I recently realized that half of my pictures from iPhoto are not copied to the external.
They haven't been transfering over.
So i snooped through my folders and as it turns out, iPhoto hasn't been copying the pictures i import from my iPhone to iPhoto and saving them as .jpg files in the pictures folder (or iPhoto album or whatever) like i think it's supposed to.
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I do not know why.
No idea how to fix it.
If i were able to fix that (with your help), would all the pictures that haven't been copied automatically copy to my pictures folder once i had the issue resolved or would there be a lot of dragging and dropping?
I've been clumsily and sloppily copying all my pictures to a new folder on my desktop and manually transferring that folder to a thumb drive (which i keep in my pocket) and my external (just so i have them in some form) in case my computer crashes or a mortar shell lands on my room and blows my computer up.
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I can't just stoll down to the Apple store to ask the Genius Bar (I'm in Baghdad) and i don't have Apple Care so no one will help me on the phone when i call Apple.
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hey mill1640,
Did you ever get your iPhone to register with iTunes? I just upgraded as well to Snow Leopard, and my my isn't recognized at all also.
If you did get this resolved, I would appreciate a little suggestion in the right direction.
Many thanks,
Josh

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