Black Screen When Booting to Windows

I have a macbook pro, mid 2009, running snow leopard 10.6.8. The problem I'm currently having is with my Bootcamp Windows 7 partition. Whenever I boot to windows, I get a black screen. I can hear the computer running, but cannot turn up the brightness to see. The keyboard lights come up after a while, and the caps lock key light can be turned on and off, but everything else is blackness, no cursor, nothing. The windows startup sound doesn't happen either. I have a trial version of Parallels 8, and I tried using my Windows 7 install disk to do repairs, as well as my Snow Leopard Install disk, but neither seem to be able to find a problem. I'm stumped and very frustrated at this point, because I can see that all my files are there, but I'm unable to reach them Any help would be forever appreciated.

By any chance is it like this: http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=vobrz6&s=6 (posted in my topic from a few months back - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2244344&tstart=0 )
Basically, Windows 7 will crash / shut itself down immediately after logging in. I've tried everything from disabling and re-enabling start-up items using msconfig.exe; using the default VGA video drivers; and can't figure out what's wrong.

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