mac mini... need some help

[Smudge]

Hi all,

I wonder if someone can help me, im pulling my hair out here.

I have a mac mini, purchased in 2009, its core2duo one & came with osx 10.5.4

I then upgraded it to snow leopard at a later date and all was good.

Now comes the problems I hadnt used it in a while so I decided I would do a fresh install. I rebooted it off the snow leopard DVD and all was looking good for a while, then it appeared it had frozen, so I restarted it.

So, I start the process again, but then it tells me I cant install the upgrade because I needed at least 10.5.x OSX installed, I only get an option to restore from a backup or restart.

I then decide i'd better dig out the original disks, only to find that they have been damaged beyond use (left in the sun on the windowseal & gone all brown)

So now I apear to be stuffed as I cant use the snow leopard upgrade disk and cant use my original disks that came with the mac.

I cant seem to purchase anything off the apple store either to dig myself out of this hole?

Anyone have any suggestions?

Cheers,
Matt.

 

[Smudge]

Thanks for the replies.

I have a snow leopard upgrade disk here, if I order another from apple will it still require my mac mini to have an existing, working copy of osx running to upgrade?

Is there such a thing as a full copy of snow leopard, rather than an upgrade?