Windows 7 Boot Camp Black Screen?

Hi,
     I know there are a lot of topics about this around the forums, but I'm having a great deal of trouble installing Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro, and none of the solutions I have found are working for me. What's happening is I can make a new Windows 7 partition and press install, but when the computer restarts, it boots to a black/grey screen with no visible activity.  Sometimes I can get as far as "loading windows files" or something to that effect, but it always freezes on the screen with that loading bar full.  I have been trying to solve this for quite some time but no solutions have proved effective.
My specs, in case it helps:
15-Inch, Late-2008, Macbook Pro
Nvidia GeForce 9400M 256 MB
10.7.2
MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ-868
I am using a retail copy of Windows 7 home premium. 
Any Advice would be greatly appreciated.

Did you create a snapshot of Windows in Parallels to fall back onto if it won't work?
It sounds like to me you didn't pass validation, did you ignore those warning bubbles in the bottom corner?
Take the machine to a local PC/Mac geek and have them find the problem, it's too involved to go into here.

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