Where can I buy install discs for my macbook pro 4,1 ?

My wife recently was given her old work computer. It was replaced by a brand new 15" MBP Retina.
The old one, a 15" MBP 4,1 early 2008 will be given to our daughter. I would like to do a fresh install of the OS and upgrade to stop at Snow Leopard. My wife thinks it came with Leopard when she first got it (10.5.2 is confimed by mactracker) and then she had it upgraded to Lion. Right now it is running 10.8.0.
The guy who bought the computer for her back in 2008 is no longer with the company and nobody can find the discs. I tried to boot from my late 2008 13" MB 5,1 factory discs and had no luck.
Where can I find factory install discs that will work?
Thanks in advance,
SinkTip
White Rock, BC

Phone AppleCare and order them. Alternatively, if you don't need iLife or the Apple Hardware Test, you can just use a retail Mac OS X 10.6 DVD.
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