Boot Camp Assistant refuses to recognize my Windows 7 Installation Disc nor my USB

I have an iMac 20inch, early 2008 model. Back when I was running Leopard I installed Windows 7 with Boot Camp from a Windows 7 Installation ISO my friend had and I burnt it to a DVD and installed it without any problems. Later, after I got tried of windows, mostly because Windows really blows unless you want to game (which is what I was using it for), and I had contracted a virus, so I deleted Windows along with my partition after backing up any data that I though I might be able to use later. Now I am fully upgraded to Lion 10.7.2 and I downloaded the Windows installation drivers and whatever else Boot Camp persuades you to download and now at the step where I choose how much of my hard drive I want to partition, after I click partition, Boot Camp refuses to recognize that my installation disc is there no matter what format I put it in. I have followed every instruction given to me and nothing has worked. I'm thinking about trying to just partition my hard drive in Disc Utilities and formatting the new partition and then copying the ISO to the partition and seeing if it'll boot up.
Anybody have any better ideas, or solutions?

Well I have tried downloaded a Windows 7 ISO, and tried mounting it on a USB flash drive and booting it from the USB, but that didn't work either (I heard that my version of OS X doesn't support that anymore because I already have an optical drive.)
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