Windows 7 with Boot Camp issues

Hi,
I have a Macbook early 2008 model, with 10.5, which apparently has boot camp 2.0 installed on it. Despite this, I managed to install Windows 7 64-bit on it, without issue, until I tried to install all the bootcamp drivers for stuff like the trackpad and the function buttons. It turns out that the only way to get the drivers for 64-bit windows 7 is by updating to bootcamp 3.1, which you can't do if you have 2.0 (not totally sure about that), because the OS X cd which should install the drivers, doesnt work for windows 7 64-bit. As far as I can see, you can't download the drivers from apple without the cd, and to use the downloads you do have, I would need bootcamp 3.1, which would require purchasing snow leaopard, and completely reinstalling my entire system (which would be an enormous pain). Is there any way around this? Can I download the drivers independently? The only thing I need to be honest is two-finger right clicking, because I don't use windows much, and that is pretty essential...
Thanks in advance,
Pete

Hi Pete,
you can buy Snow Leopard for about USD 29 but you don't have to install OSX Snow Leopard in order to install the updated BootCamp Drivers from it.
Since the BootCamp Drivers are on a seperate 'partition' on the OSX DVD (better said the OSX DVD is an OSX/Windows-hybrid disc) you can just install the BootCamp Drivers from it.
Regards
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