Reading Leopard DVD in WinXP Pro

From what I gathered, it seems Apple forgot an important piece of information when instructing users to insert their Leopard DVD into Windows XP to update the Boot Camp drivers. This is from an Apple Support page:
"If Mediafour's MacDrive is installed in Microsoft Windows, you may be unable to mount the dual-format Leopard DVD (which includes Apple Boot Camp drivers) to upgrade Apple drivers from Boot Camp Beta to Leopard."
So a third party utility (Mediafour) needs to be installed under Windows first before Windows is able to read the Leopard DVD to access the Boot Camp update drivers?
Why can't they just provide a download?
What a copout. Nowhere is this mentioned on the DVD. I had to find it buried in some Support page.

No. What this is saying is that the DVD is dual format. If you insert it while running Windows without MacDrive it will mount and allow you to install the Boot Camp drivers. If you have MacDrive installed you may have a problem mounting the Windows partition and not be able to install the Boot Camp drivers. You need to disable MacDrive.

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