I need to reinstall system drivers but have no trackpad/keyboard to do so!!

i have a MacBook Pro and am using mac osx 10.5.4 and win xp pro with sp3
basically, i installed parallels and had problems accessing the internet via win xp (in bootcamp mode)
so i ended up uninstalling all drivers for window to rediscover the system hardware and hopefully help get access working - i have done this many times on pc's (especially just reinstalling the network adapters). i didn't realise that apple installs the drivers for the trackpad and keyboard as thought they are usb connected devices and so when i rebooted win xp again it started installing the driver for the intel cpu first of all - it got to the "continue anyway" window when it doesn't recognise the certificate but i had no mouse or keyboard to click to go ahead. the thing that messed it all up is uninstalling the usb port drivers. win xp is not choosing to reinstall them first of all and even if it did it might require me to give input.
so i am wondering if i can manually copy the drivers to the right place on the bootcamp drive by copying them through my mac desktop (i have access to the drive using paragon ntfs software) or can i edit a file to fool win xp into thinking the drivers are already reinstalled or so that it installs them fully unattended????
i desperately want to get control of my bootcamp install again because i have painstakingly installed tons of my games, securified the system and configured it alot and really am reluctant to reinstall fresh again
PLEASE TELL ME THERE IS A WORK AROUND!?????
thanks in advance guys!
Steve

is there anyone who can actually help me with this problem!!!!????? Apple, can you???????
is there a way of editing the hardware profiles manually? is the information saved in a file, etc?

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