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That is why the install does not work - the install discs that are shipped with a Mac are always model specific. So if your girlfriend's Mac was e.g. MacBook (early 2008) then the only Macs that those install discs can be used with are other MacBook (early 2008) models. MacBook (late 2008) or MacBook Pro or iBook or eMac or any other Mac out there will not work. Your Mac is not the same type and generation of Mac than hers, so it will not work.
What you will need to do is contact the seller, and demand the discs. Without those discs you can't install the OS, and you can't even do maintenance from those discs to the system. It's as if you'd bought a car with no keys.
A second thing --- a grey MacBook? Do you mean a MacBook Pro? What does system profiler say about your model? There is no such thing as a gray MacBook...
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