Trouble installing drivers for Boot Camp XP

Okay, so I recently installed an older version of Windows XP onto my MacBook through Boot Camp. Windows runs fine, but none of the mac drivers are installed. I tried using the Mac OS discs, but they come up with the "windows installer installation wrapper" and a thing saying "the required resource UPDATE is missing."
So I realize this is basically the same situation as shown here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1497292&tstart=312
But buying a new version of XP is really not an option for me. Which leaves option 3. Now I looked through the link given that talks about Slipstreaming, but I am confused. Can someone possibly walk me through what slipstreaming is, and how I do it? The main problem I see with this is that I can't connect to the internet with Windows, so I can't download some of the things needed.
Can anyone help me?

You should probably post your question in the Boot Camp forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

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