Cannot read Leopard DVD in Vista

Hi,
I just got a leopard DVD, and Im trying to upgrade the bootcamp drivers in Vista from the DVD, and I just realised my MBP cant read Dvd's in Vista.
It will spin up the disc, and when i click the Dvd drive, it ejects the DVD.
Anyone experiencing this?
Cheers

john13th wrote:
Ok, so this was done by Apple by purpose?
To clarify slightly what others have said, Apple licences the grey system discs that come with a Mac for use only with that specific Mac, not for use with any other Mac, even one of exactly the same model. So using them with any other Mac violates the terms of the license & should be avoided. The installer on the grey discs enforces this in part by checking the model of the Mac when it is run & refusing to install anything if the Mac is not the correct model. It displays a warning message that the disc cannot be used with that Mac & the only available option is to quit the installer.
Beyond that, while the grey discs may in fact include & install drivers for the hardware in other, older Mac models, they cannot include ones for Macs using hardware newer than the release date of the Mac they came with. In this case, the other Mac can't even start up from the installer disc & it freezes with a kernel panic before it can run the installer. This seems to be what happened here.

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