Apple ships wrong boot camp driver for MBA iSight?

Apparently, the built-in iSight camera of MBA is a new version, and it is not covered by the boot camp driver supplied in the MBA dvds (at least not when using VMWare Fusion to run Win XP).
You can alter the iSight.inf file to fool WIndows into accepting the drivers. But at the end, the installation won't complete (probably because of incorrect files). Nonetheless, a generic camera will be installed, and you can still use (barely) the iSight in Windows.
See below for details.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=463912

You deleted OS X. Now, you have to reinstall it. If your Mac came with DVDs, follow these steps:
1. Insert the Mac OS X DVD and hold the C key while your computer is starting, and go to Utilities menu > Disk Utility.
2. Select the hard drive at the top of the sidebar, go to Erase tab and erase the disk.
3. Close Disk Utility and install OS X. After installing OS X, you must install Windows again on your computer.
If your Mac didn't come with DVDs, press Command, Option (Alt) and R keys while your Mac is starting.
If you need help to install Windows on the computer, see > http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

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