New MacBook Leopard Not For Me. What To Do!?

Hi All!
I have just bought a MacBook a week ago! I had some doubts about Leopard, since I use hardware that requires drivers, and these are not yet Leopard compatible. But I thought that it would not be a problem cause I have a Tiger license not in use, so I would downgrade, and then upgrade once the drivers got up to date.
BUT, I can not, my Tiger install Cd is bougth about a year and a half ago. And I get the message that I can not be installed on my machine, when I try to install.
What do I do?
I do not want to wait 3 months to be able to use my hardware...
Is my Install DVD not universal binary perhaps, in that case, is it possible to get one that is?
Thanks all
morten beta

I wanted to buy a new Mac just after the switch to Leopard, but was told by an Apple Dealer, (not an Apple Store, but one that knows their stuff), that the same models that came with Tiger last week, would not run Tiger due to Firmware Updates.
Should be easy enough to check by cloning an existing latest IntelMac Tiger install to a GUID external HD, then see if yours can boot off it.

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