New Mac Os X cd. help

I acidentally broke My mac os X cd 1. To deal with this I called apple support and ordered a replacement cd. After installing os X with my new cd I find that my macbook pro doesnt recognize my keyboard and i sight. The keyboard works and isight using photobooth displays a green screen while on imovie just says that no camera is detected. I guess this happened because the cd I got did not have the drivers for my macbook pro so my question is, where can I find all this basic drivers?
Thanks

You probably have the right disc, start the Mac with that DVD in and hold down the 'D' key to run the Hardware tests - see what it returns for the iSight and Keyboard items?
You might also try resetting Parameter RAM by holding down P/R while booting and waiting for 2 'chimes' before letting go.

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