Options for reading dynamic NTFS drive in OS 10.5

Hi,
Long story short, I have a dynamic NTFS formatted drive which I need to read with a Macbook. I am studying abroad and have no access to the computer which I pulled the drive from.
I am open to any option which would allow me to access the contents of this drive. The drive has my main iTunes library as well as other media on it which I would like to have access to while I am abroad. If I could access the MP3s and MKV files on the drive without having to reformat it, that would be excellent. If this is not possible I would be willing to buy a second external hard drive and format it under OS X to which I could move my files.
My initial thoughts are to try accessing this drive from a linux distro or Win XP in parallels.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a bunch!

Leopard can read NTFS. If that isn't working, I don't know that MacFUSE or Paragon Software's NTFS for OS X will either (both support ability to write to NTFS).
Forget Parallels VM, I'd put Windows 7 beta in.
Definitely invest in backups for OS X and room for an NTFS backup or "safe zone" to work with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFSfilesystem
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2c4910c6-1b83-40e5-810a-023993aa8b94
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781134.aspx

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