Boot Camp & 64-Bit Windows Vista Ultimate

My wife and I purchased the latest top-of-the-line iMac about 10 days ago (3.06 Ghz (Core 2 Duo), 8 GB RAM, 24 inch). We were hoping to use Apple's Boot Camp in order to run a very specific 64-bit application on the Windows side.
To our astonishment, this top-of-the-line iMac cannot run 64-bit Windows (we have an additional copy of Windows Vista Ultimate). Only select Macs can run the 64-bit Windows OS:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1846
Does anybody think there is a chance that this might change with the arrival of Snow Leopard next month...?
I certainly hope so! I really need to run this one application a few times per week in association with some personal and work responsibilities.
By the way, I already tried Fusion (2) and didn't like the results (a little too slow). There are some who have said that Boot Camp is a little bit faster for some 64-bit applications. Don't know if this is true or not...

Hi,
have a look at the hatters post in this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9730296&#9730296 for a workaround.
Hope it helps
Stefan

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