Leopard not installing as expected on new MacBook Pro

I'm helping a friend set up a new 15inch MacBook Pro that she received for Christmas. It came with Tiger installed and a Leopard installation disc in the box. My (admittedly limited) experience with my Macs has been that the pre-installed OS usually has a whole lot of stuff (languages, apps. etc.) that I don't need so, instead of doing an Upgrade install I choose the Erase and Install option. However, this has been when I have upgraded my Macs that came with one OS to the next OS using a retail version of the new OS.
I opted to go the Erase and Install route with the (supplied) Leopard disc, however, it did not give me the option to select which components to install and simply proceeded to install everything - exactly what I did not want!
Have I missed something here or is there a difference between the supplied Leopard install disc and the retail disc? Partly answering my own question - there must be some differences because her supplied Leopard install disc has some (maybe all) of the iLife 08 apps included.
Can anyone advise me whether I could use my retail Leopard install disc to re-install on her MacBook Pro (I bought a 'family' disc and have so far only installed it on my iMac because my husband decided he wants to stick with Tiger on his Mac Mini and the G4 PowerBook.)
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Cheers
Tricia

From what I understand, there is a definite difference although I do not know what it is. So I don't really know about what the upgrade disc does. But I am surprised it gave you no options. Did it have anything you could print out like the "Mac OS X v. 10.5 Leopard Installation and Setup Guide" that comes with the full retail version?
As for doing an erase and custom install with the full retail version, yes you can do that. My MBP came with Tiger and I later installed Leopard with an erase and install and left out all the printer drivers and languages I would never use. I then had to reinstall iLife 08 and the other bundled applications from the Tiger install discs.
The real problem is that your friend needs her own set of discs for troubleshooting etc. I don't know if it's permissible for you to make her a copy of the Leopard Retail disc, but maybe you could since you did buy the family pack.
There should be some way to do what you want with her discs--it may be worth printing out whatever information there is and reading it closely and see if something is possible. I do know that the "options" box on my copy of Leopard was so subtle that I missed it the first time. It appears on the "select a destination" page in the lower left corner.
Hope this helps.
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