Try using the original install disk that came with your computer. Snow Leopard updates only system files and the kernel extensions upon a reinstall unless you do a clean install. After reinstalling run Software Update to bring Snow Leopard up to 10.6.8. A retail Snow Leopard disk does not work on the late MBP models because it does not contain the proper hardware drivers.
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