Tiger and Leopard on the Same MacBook?

I have a MacBook and would like to have both Tiger and Leopard on it. I Googled and found info that did not work for my "newer" machine. I purchased two months ago. I have a number of files that are Tiger only and will not be rewritten for Leopard. Can anyone offer a possibility of doing this for the newer machines!?!?!

To boot two different OS X versions, you need to have each version installed on a different bootable Volume. This can be on different partitions on the same drive, or on different drives, i.e. the internal and an external FW drive.
(Mac OS X and OS 9 can be on the same partition or drive for the older OS 9 bootable machines)
This is very useful when upgrading a Mac to a new OS, then you can perform the installation on a new drive and keep your old drive in tact, allowing you to boot the old and new OS version and access files from both drives.
However, when a Mac ships with a particular OS version, most of the time you can not downgrade to an older OS version.

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