Installing Old Apps

Hey, before I got my MacBook my cheap 12" iBook was running out of hard drive space. I deleted the 3+ gigabyte WorldBook Encyclopedia which was pre-installed on the tiger iBook (basically, bloatware) knowing I could get it back from the reinstall disks. I am now running the latest Leopard on my MacBook and was wondering how I could install this - which disk to use, and if it will be an issue that the MacBook is now running Leopard. The MacBook was purchased with Tiger, but I did an archive-install when Leopard came out, so it shouldn't make a difference. There were a couple other apps they threw in too, so it would be nice to get this too work.
Thanks!

Both the iBook and the MacBook are running Leopard, which is the specific issue I was hoping to find a solution to. Also, both machines were purchased new by me from an Apple retail store. The iBook doesn't even have iLife because a full erase-install was performed on that machine, after all it's contents had been backed up on the MacBook (and subsequently on a backup disk). When I double clicked the "install other apps) icon on the install disk, it told me I could not install the apps on that computer.
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