SuperDrive not working and bootcamp seems not working with external CD

Hi everyone,
I have a MacBook, and the internal SuperDrive is dead, now I'm using an
external CD drive (USB).
Yesterday I bought Leopard 10.5.4, (need to intall BootCamp).
The update from Tiger to Leopard was easy, and withought problems, but when I tried to install BootCamp, the partition seems correctly created, but when the program request the Windows CD and restart, a grey screen apears and nothing
happend... also Leopard is unable to start again, just the grey screen...
Now I found that if I press alt key, appear the Macintosh HD and i can start it,
but never automatically...
What can I do? I tried to reintall again with the same result...
I need BootCamp, if not i think i waste 129$ cause the only reason to purchase Leopard was BootCamp... also I need my computer reebot again by itself, not using the alt key... that's really anoying...
Please Help
Best regards.

Hi BigWaveSurfer,
I don't have an external CD/DVD-Drive, so I made some guessing.
From my understanding of Windows it is more likely to work with an USB-connected external drive than with a FireWire one.
Windows XP (and Vista to my knowledge) can only support/access Firewire devices with additional drivers, that are not loadad/used during the installation phase.
Only when Windows is fully installed the needed Firewire driver is present and Windows can use it.
Stefan

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