Windows 7 + Boot camp 2.0 / Leopard

Hi
I bought windows 7 32 bit the other day and installed it on my early macbook 13" alu with leopard and boot camp 2.0. It works almost perfectly but after installing I was told I couldn't install the boot camp drivers from the Leopard DVD and the guy who told me was right. I didn't knew I had to have Snow Leopard installed to get my windows 7 to work correctly?
I'm only using my windows 7 to run Eviews which i'm currently using for my studies, there is no problem running it, but I still have the red LED light glowing on the side of the mac. My question is can I install Snow leopard without removing my windows partition and then afterwards install the newest boot camp drivers in windows partition?
Thanks in advance for any replies.

I am replying to this message because I cannot for the life of me locate the new topic button. So I am having an issue with Bootcamp on a brand new mac "SNOW LEOPARD". I have for the last 4 days been trying to install Windows 7 on a 25 gig partition and it just won't work. The computer will install the files, reboot, and shut off at the windows screen with that little color thingy that comes up. I cannot get any support from Apple, or Windows so, How do I get windows on my mac?? I need windows for work to run their software.
Thanks very much for any help

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