Boot Camp Cannot Partition

I have issues.
So here we go...
My main issue here is I cannot partion my system with Boot Camp Assistant. As far as I can tell I've followed every step correctly to this point.
Everything is updated
I had Microsoft send me a new, full version of Windows 8 Disk to use
I purchased a new 32gb thumbdrive and formatted it correctly
I downloaded the all the Windows Support Updates to the Flash Drive
So far I can't get past this error:
For some reason I only have two options for the size of the partition:
or
I'm using this thumbdrive:
And this is the current state of my iMac and Storage:
I only need Windows to run a single program so I really don't need anything but the minimum here...
Any ideas on what the heck is going on?
Thanks in advance,
-Jared

I have issue trying to partition with the Boot Camp Assistant and I solved and worte this post here http://plususefulness.blogspot.com/2011/09/fixed-boot-camp-partition-failure.htm l
Please let me know if that helped

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Hi Stefan,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question! Although I think your steps will "work", per se (and I will try them out as soon as I can), I'm something of a purist in regards to my backups and so this method seems a little hackish as opposed to a process that actually images the volume in question (I'm also curious from a technical perspective, as the Boot Camp Assistant Beta used to allow for a dedicated MacintoshDrivers disc to be burned from it—I liked that method better, to be honest).
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