Screen Captures of Setup Assistant?

I'd like to document the Setup Assistant that runs after installing Mac OS X (or booting a brand new Mac for the first time). Specifically, I'd like to be able to take screen captures of the various dialog boxes that appear such as setting up the first user account or whether or not I'd like to try .Mac for 30 days or entering the registration information for the Mac.
I can't seem to find these images anywhere on the internet or in documentation that comes with the Mac, nor can I find a way to run the Setup Assistant as a windowed-application.
Any thoughts on how I can get these images????
Thank you,
Jon

If the built-in screen capture shortcut keys don't work, then you may be stuck doing something funky.
Two ideas:
- Use a digital camera to shoot take photos of the screen.
- I'm not sure precisely how to do this (i.e., exactly what cables and adapters you would need), but you should be able to take the video-out, and run it into the video-in on a Mac with a video capture card (or maybe a digicam or some other device), and capture the screen data that way.
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