Reinstallation of specific firewire drivers?

So I was a bit of a moron the other day in attempting to hook my PowerBook up to my HD cable box from Comcast. I was using directions that were a few years old, and without realizing what I was doing (looking back on it I can't believe I was so careless) I installed FireWire drivers that not only did my OS not need, they were a few years old. Is there any way for me to reinstall only a few specific drivers from the OS CD, or am I SOL and just have to reinstall my whole system? The drivers that were replaced were these:
AppleFWOHCI
AppleLynx
IOFireWireFamily
IOFireWireSBP2
IOFireWireAVC
IOFWDVComponents
They were part of the FireWire SDK version 19 that (I now know) is not needed with 10.4. Any help would be appreciated, I just really don't want to spend a few hours reinstalling and reconfiguring the entire system. Thanks!

You can use Pacifist from charlessoft.com to extract the drivers you need from the OS install CD/DVD

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