Another "can't download support drivers" question (but with a twist)

From looking through the forum it seems that a lot of people are having difficulty downloading the drivers through the boot camp assistant, and the most common advice seems to be to use the drivers that come with the snow leopard 10.6 install disc.
That's all good and well, except I have just bought a brand new iMac and it had Mountain Lion on it already. It did not come with any software installation disc.
So my question is: how do I get the windows support software onto my machine if I can't download it through the boot camp assistant?
Should I have received a system software CD with my computer?
Many thanks in advance.

Well I got everything up and running today, not a bother.
It actually only took about an hour, if that, to download the drivers. Possibly because I downloaded them early this morning (which would be the middle of the night over in the US and so probably a lot less people trying to download it from the apple servers).
For a while only the keyboard was working but for some reason the wireless mouse wasn't, but I just ran the driver installer again and it seemed to resolve itself.
So thanks for all the help guys, much appreciated.

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