Ask for disks replacement or wait for Snow Leopard?

I think I've lost the OSX Leopard disks (both of them) that came with my MacBook unibody.
In a recent post I've read that it's possible to ask Apple for a replacement. But considering that I'm going to upgrade to Snow Leopard, are the original ones still necesary?
Does the SL distro (the upgrade, I mean) contain, for instance, XCode or the Windows drivers for bootcamp?
I also bought the iLife'09 upgrade .... [click in my mind and some minutes later] .... Ugh. Things are getting worse, I can't find that disk either. Ok, let's forget iLife for the moment.
I'm using a TimeCapsule to backing up my Mac. AFAIU, if something goes wrong with my HD I can restore from the backup but I still do need the OS disks. Is that correct?
Once I've installed SL, could the restore be done from within the SL disk making Leopard disk "obsolete"?
Regards

none of your SL questions can be answered here until snow leopard is officially released. that would be against forum rules and people who do have snow leopard already are still under NDA. but regardless of the answers I would certainly suggest you get the replacement disks. those install disks contain ilife that came with your computer and apple hardware tests which will be absent on a retail leopard or snow leopard disk. also, to restore your entire leopard system from a TM backup you will need a leopard install disk.

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