Need drivers, Vista won't mount Leopard DVD

Somehow Parallels Desktop (or something) hosed the drivers on my BootCamp partition. Result: can't mount DVDs. Since the only solution for restoring the drivers is to insert the Leopard DVD, you can see my problem. I need drivers to mount the DVD and I need to mount the DVD to get the drivers!
Is there any way out of this vicious circle?

Use another Windows system to put the Drivers folder from the Leopard CD on a USB or FW storage device and then apply the drivers individually on your BootCamp Vista from the storage device. There is some information about this on page 24 of the BootCamp installation instructions.
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