Boot Camp Drivers Issue

Hello,
I'm in the process of setting up Windows 7 Home Premium on my Macbook Pro OS X 10.6 through Boot Camp. I have succesfully installed Windows 7 on my machine, but I am now stuck on step 4: installing the Boot Camp Drivers for Windows. When I insert my Mac OS X installation disc on the Windows 7 operating system I get a message saying, "This version of Boot Camp is not intended for this Computer Model".
I tried to do some research and found suggested methods for solving this problem. One of which was to open the "BootCamp64" file on the disc under Boot Camp>Drivers>Apple. When I attempted this I got a message saying, "This installation requires elevated privileges. Launch the installer through setup.exe". I then right clicked on "BootCamp64" and selected "Troubleshoot Compatibility". I received the same message. I then opened "Setup" and still no luck: "This version of Boot Camp is not intended for this computer model" (even when I tried opening "setup" as administrator). I also tried another suggestion of launching the BootCamp64.msi file through the Command Prompt, but that doesn't work either and I receive the same messages.
I've read that these methods worked for many people, but I can't seem to solve the issue at all and feel like I've done all I can. Any sort of help and recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

a) The first boot camp driver update to Windows OS must be done with the OSX install disks that came with your
Mac(BookPro) purchase.
I believe this must be the problem then. The Mac OS X installation disc that I am using belongs to a friend of mine and came with the purchase of his machine (the same Macbook Pro version as mine, 10.6). I thought about whether this would be an issue before I started the process but I've heard that it didn't make a difference for certain people, since the disk I've been using is the same OS X version as my machine.
Is this it then? I seem to have misplaced the install DVDs that came with the purchase of my Macbook Pro, so I suppose I should start looking for them.

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i had exactly the same problem and been browsing galores of forums with no real answer.
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On Sep 6, 2007, at 22:42 , Brandon Coppin wrote:
Hey Makel,
After hours of searching I finally found a useful website... yours.
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Actually it is a problem specific to later model Macs.
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Crash City.
It would be nice if Apple kept updated versions of the Windows Setup program available at Apple.com ... with all the current Windows drivers for the current Mac hardware in them. Hey, I could copy that onto a USB drive or DOS formatted CD, boot Windows, copy the file onto the Windows partition, run it ... and then Bootcamp would operate well.
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