Lion Bootcamp won't install Windows 7 Professional

I have a fresh install of Lion on my iMac and have been trying to install Windows 7 Professional using Bootcamp 4.0.  Here's what I've done.
1) Loaded bootcamp and followed the instructions to partition the drive.  Split the 500GB drive so the Mac would have approximately 300GB and Win7 would have 200GB.  Then bootcamp asked me to insert my Win7 disk which I did and click "Install now".  I did so and it rebooted.  Upon rebooting my iMac says "No bootable device.  Insert boot disk and press any key".  However, the Win7 install disk is already in the drive.
After reading on forums I've tried the following but still to no avail.
2) I reboot the computer while holding down the "C" key.  Occassionally when I do this the Installation will start and I make it to the Windows activation screen where it asks where I want to install the OS.  I select "advanced" and go ahead and select "format" the Bootcamp drive and it takes about 10 seconds to format.  Then I proceed with the install.  It comes to the screen where it says "Expanding Windows Activated Files" and it shows a 0% and just hangs there.  On one occasion when I was in the beginning stages of the install program it stopped and asked me to insert a disk to install a driver for the disk drive.  From what I can tell it's like the mac isn't finding and reading the DVD files properly.  And sometimes it works for a while and but after a bit it just craps out.  Before Lion I had Snow Lepoard and using Bootcamp 3.2 i was able to install Win7 with no problems.
3) One last thing.  So after messing with Lion I became frustrated and thought I'm just going to go back to SL.  So I pulled out my SL disk and went ahead and did a full SL install.  However, when I went into Bootcamp (v3.2 or whatever version comes with SL) it would not allow me to partition my Hard drive. Some error comes up and I can't remember exactly what the error said.  But after doing more research on the web I found the problem.  It's that Lion installs another hidden partition on my drive which I can't seem to remove.  Even when I used disk utilities and formatted the drive before installing SL the hidden Lion recovery partition is still there.  So now I can't seem to go back to a clean install of SL to get bootcamp and Win7 working again.
Any help here is much appreciated.
Thanks
Steven

Does fdisk work? Something like 'sudo fdisk -a hfs'? Or maybe 'fdisk -i' first. You see, I'm guessing here.
If you get the unmount error: would 'umount -Af' from USB work? You probably tried that already.
If this all fails, the next step _I_ would take, would be plugging the disk into a Linux box nearby and check the disk there.
Also interesting:
http://blog.gete.net/2011/07/30/lion-diskmaker-1-1-est-disponible/
(scroll down to a post from MILE)

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