Installing Leopard on New Macbook

I recently purchased the new Macbooks that came with Snow Leopard, but because they are going in a school enviroment and our software compatibility issues, I need to install leopard on them. I can get the device to boot and show me the retail install cd, but when I click the cd for install it freezes.
I suspect that the device is booting possibly in 64-bit mode and know I can hold down 32 to get it to boot in to 32-bit mode, but when I do that it wont then let me hold down the option key to access Boot Manager.
Any ideas or insight would be greatly appreciated...
Background:
We recently purchased 25 of the new Macbook for distribution in a school enviroment. When the devices arrived I attempted to do a NetRestore from our Snow Leopard Server with the Leopard image that works on the older macbook models, but when it comes to this model (no firewire edition, suck) it gets a kernal panic error. So I was going to do a manual configuration on a single one of these devices and then use the image utility to create a new image, I could hopefully NetRestore with.

So,
Etresoft was correct.
After some troubleshooting and a call to AppleCare, some discoveries were made that were challenging. I was forced to install Snow Leopard and check the compatibility of our Education software to see if it would run without a problem and it did (thank God).
The next obsticle was creating the .nbi of the image off the "New Macbook" that no longer supported "Target Disk", with some discussion on the phone with the Apple Rep we both concluded this would only be possible if I were to install Snow Leopard on an external drive and then install the Snow Leopard Server Admin Tools and boot to that. Once that installation was complete, I was able to boot from the external and use the Image tility to get the new image off the device and moved over to our Snow Leopard Server.

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Klapschaats,
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