Help installing Snow Leopard/Lion on MacBook 2,1

Hi.

I am currently trying to upgrade the OS on my old MacBook to the latest version it can handle. It appears OS X 7 (Lion) is the most I can upgrade it to.

Apologies if this gets confusing or long winded...

I also have a Mac Mini which is running the latest OS, and purchased Lion a few years back. I was hoping to use that purchase on my MacBook, which is currently running Version 10.5.8. I was told by Apple I need to first upgrade to Snow Leopard to download the App Store on it before I can install Lion.

After inserting the Snow Leopard installation discs (that came with my Mac Mini) in the MacBook, I hit a road block.

I received a prompt telling me "Mac OS X Snow Leopard cannot be installed on this computer".

I checked the minimum requirements which it appears to meet...

I have an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2GB Memory (RAM), 35GB of disk space available. After speaking with the Apple technical support they suggested the problem may lay with my Graphics card which is an Intel GMA 950. Have looked around online, this doesn't seem to be an issue or have stopped others who made the upgrade.

Is there any workaround this, without having to replace the internal components? I'd greatly appreciate any help, as I would like to use my MacBook when I go on holiday next week. Thanks.