Effect on Boot Camp of upgrading OS

Dear Boot Camp gurus,
My iMac (tech details below) has been at 10.6.8 for a long time due to compatibility requirements with older software. That need has now gone away and I want to get to 10.9 Mavericks before Yosemite releases. It appears all my apps are now compatible with Intel and  Mavericks (no PowerPC apps).
I current have a very stable installation of Win 7/64 Home Premium on this computer (160GB partition), installed via BootCamp Assistant v3.0.4. I have questions about preserving Windows access past any OSX upgrade:
1) If I upgrade the Mac OS, will I still be able to access Win 7 normally and do the BootCamp updates from there?
2) Will I have to start over and reinstall Win 7 instead?
I have already downloaded the BootCamp 5 support files so can move those to a USB flash drive after the upgrade. I used the Win7/64 System Builders' Edition originally and it registere with MS without issue.
I don't use the Win partition that much but rely on it to "pre-work" methods for maintaining two Win computers at a museum where I volunteer. I am not a Win guy but, as the only volunteer there who can spell "computer" correctly 70 percent of the time, I became the default support guy!
Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
Allan

Thanks, Niel.
I did the Mav upgrade while the Tuesday event was "trying to play," and finally had time this moring to test the Boot Camp partition. Using the Startup manage I successfully booted to Win 7, did some tests, and then was able to use teh BootCamp icon in the Win Task bar to get back to the Mac side.
My only concern is that the Boot Camp files in the Win partition are v4 but those installed in Mav are v5. I supposed it doesn't matter in that Win seems to work perfectly. However, when I original bootcamped this computer, BC was at v3 and somewhere I got an SU notice in windows that updated it to v4.

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