Wiped hard drive by mistake, now cannot re-install OS?

Foolish question of the year, a small child succeeded in putting the system file and the rest of the contents of the hard drive in the Trash and then emptied it. there now seems to be nothing on the drive. Restart goes to the gray panic hanging page. stating that there are no drivers installed.
Have tried to reinstall off the orig restore disks, but will not start off disks with 'C' down, goes to gray page.
It restarts ok off the hardware test disk, which comes up fine.
I have started up as an ext hard drive to my Macbook pro, on a firewire connection, but do not know how to re-install the system.
Any ideas? many thanks and Happy New Year

Did you ever install the os with that dvd on this machine before? Or did you just run with the the os that was installed?
Interestingly enough if you read this
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/stats/mac-mini-core-2-duo-2.66-mi d-2010-server-specs.html
It says your unit came with 10.6.4 from the factory!
If this is true what you read on hoffmanlab is right on target.

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