Windows drivers installation on an upgraded leopard?

I bought a macbook with an upgraded software leopard ( originally Tiger ), I installed windows but i cant install drivers, when i put a Tiger system CD it doesn't read anything, I have a another Leopard original CD for an old broken macbook when I put it on it start installing but it just stuck and comes up with a blue error msg then it restart automatically.
I tried reinstalling windows it give the same problem.
Please help, Appreciate all comments

I installed windows
Then you should post your question in the Boot Camp forums, as this forum is for troubleshooting Apple Software Update for Windows, a software package for Windows designed to update Apple products that run on Windows.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

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