Why can't the Boot Camp Utility find my Installer Disk?

I'm trying to use Windows 7 Proffesional on my MacBook Pro (running on Mountain Lion) with Boot Camp, but whenever I am partitioning on the Boot Camp Utility it tells me that the Windows Installer Disk cannot be found. I have been able to get Windows 7 free from my college and it was all digital so I did as suggested and burned the .iso file that was downloaded to a DVD-R. When prompted I put the burned disk into my disk drive. I can find the disk in Finder and it shows that the .iso was burned successfully but the Boot Camp Utility will not detect it. I'm not sure what I have left to do, but I would like to get this problem resolved. Any suggestions?

I tried burning the ISO to a disk on the slowest (2.4 is the slowest offered on my computer) twice. Both times the burns didn't give me any error messages and the ISO was found on the disk, but Boot Camp Utility still will not detect the disk.
Any other suggestions?

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