Just bought Macbook Pro and no Leopard installed

Just recieved my 2.2ghz Macbook Pro from Amazon.com. It has the old OS on it. I bought Leopard, full retail, to upgrade my Mac Mini a few weeks ago.
I know I can pay $9.99 to have Leopard shipped from Apple because the macbook I just bought qualifies, but if I already have the OS disc can I just upgrade now?
I guess the question boils down to is the $9.99 for shipping and the cost of the disc, or is there a licensing fee involved. If it is just for overhead cost of manufacture and shipping then there should be no issue.
The OS disc I purchased is MAC OS X V10.5 RETAIL per the label.
I searched the forums and could not find anything similiar, but I am new to macs.

If you have the full retail version of Leopard then you are good to go. Keep in mind though that you will not receive the iLife programs within the Leopard install. You will have to install those off of the disc that came with the MBP. The full retail version of Leopard works great with the MBP. I am not sure how much memory you have right now, however, you may want to upgrade to a full 4 gigabytes of memory. Go to Otherworldcomputing.com. They have great deals on the RAM, and it is like turbocharging your MBP if you upgrade the RAM to full capacity under Leopard. If they ever fix that translucent menu bar at the top of Leopard, I will be one happy camper. Good luck, and enjoy your new MBP.

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