Is it possible to get a free set of replacement CD's from Apple if you lost your originals? Especially if the system is out of warranty, and over three years old?
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iMac replacement CD's?
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Call Apple. You can get replacements for a nominal fee. (I think it's around $25).
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No they won't give them away but you can buy them for a nominal charge. Besides it just isn't right to ask Apple (or anyone else) to pay for your carelessness. Sorry if that comes across too blunt.
or just buy retail snow leopard...it's only $29
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA
You can do a clean install of Lion if you back it up to a CD, but I will most likely end up getting SL instead. Reason being is that Lion creates a recovery partition (I don't even know if it would create it on a 2008 system). If a person wants to do a complete reinstall using that recovery partition, then they'll need the App Store account which was used to purchase that copy of Lion. On the other hand I could probably include the backed up copy of Lion on a CD, but I am not sure what the legalities of that would be, so I am thinking of going with retail Snow Leopard instead.