Is there supposed to be an iLife disc in my Mac Mini box?

I bought a Mac Mini today! First Mac ever.
Is there supposed to be an iLife '08 DVD in this box?
When I bought my mac, the seal on the Mac Mini box was broken. The guy at Best Buy said if anything was missing, to just bring it back and they'd take care of it. All the cables and the remote seem to be here. In the little grey "envelope" there's two grey discs which claim to be Mac OS X install discs, and there's a Leopard update disc... but no iLife '08 disc. Is iLife supposed to come on a seperate disc, or is it just installed along with OS X?
iLife is preinstalled, of course, but I'd like to know I can reinstall it if my hard drive goes nova on me.

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions, and the Mac World
iLife 08 will be on the Mac Mini install disc (grey).
It's a system-specific install disc rather than an OS X install disc.
cheers
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