Boot camp asking for windows installer update

I cannot load the osx dvd because it prompts me to update my windows installer. You can click no or update. No closes the whole thing and update gives me an error. Anyone able to help?

Hi afrobat,
you probably need something like this (download from net).
For winXP 32bit ="WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe"
for win7 32+64bit ="Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu"
"Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x64.msu"
These are windows applications so install with-in winOS.
They are "Windows Installer 4.5"

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