Won't install. Spits disk out.

I am currently running on tiger, and just received the disk to upgrade to snow leopard. I keep putting it in and it spits it out or it will let me click install and it will try to restart and spit the disk out in the middle of restarting. I want to Upgrade, not erase my data and start from scratch. What can I do?

In addition to what sig asks, is the disc in good shape, free of any scratches or contaminants like smudges? Are you sure your Mac has at least 1 GB of working memory installed? (If you are unsure about this, open System Profiler, click on "memory" in the list on the left & make sure each memory slot says "OK" in the last column & the total of the sizes add up to 1 GB or more.)

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