Quoting myself: "Not that you necessarily want Snow Leopard, but it's possible that the new MBPs that ship with it merely ship with it and can run Leopard nonetheless."

See if somebody in that store in which you used to work will allow you to try to boot one of the new MBPs that shipped with SL into L.

Good luck!

The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.

In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire