Boot camp fails on windows 8.1 install on imac 5k

I've been going around in circles with senior Apple Tech Support, and Microsoft Tech Support, and it seems there's a consensus that imac 5k's with fusion drives CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS.
Curiously, when I first ran boot camp, it did install windows 8.1, but the install was unstable and failed after switching from 8.1 >> Yosemite >> 8.1. I could reboot as many times as I liked within 8.1, but once I went back to Yosemite, it would kill the windows realm.
I've searched the web for options, trying to make this setup work. The most promising option seemed to be using vmware to install windows onto a raw disk mapping, where the raw disk was a thunderbolt ssd. These pages suggest a pretty viable path (if complicated):
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/74977/is-it-possible-to-install-and-boo t-windows-on-a-thunderbolt-drive
http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/2011/09/attaching-a-physical-raw-disk-to-vmware-fusion -4-without-bootcamp/comment-page-1/#comment-4918
It seemed like I had the raw mapping set up - vmware could address the drive directly, set the disk size, etc. But when I tried to install windows from there, the installer found no disks available on the virtual machine.
Apple Senior Tech Support tells me this is a known issue - but they cannot say whether engineering will ever produce a fix. Alas, because I bought the machine through BH Photo, they will only replace the machine with an identical model -- so I've spent a pile on a machine that can't run windows natively (which was the reason for buying the machine in the first place.)
Anyone out there think of a way to make this all work? Thanks either way.

I finally was able to get things functioning - sort of - by installing boot camp on an older iMac, then using winclone to brain-dump the install onto an external, EFI thunderbolt setup. From there I can select that cloned bootcamp as a startup disk, and so far it appears to be a stable setup. Eesh.

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Thanks Loner T for your response. I don't have any third party NFTS software. At this point I don't think it is worth the effort to attempt to do anything complicated.
I did take some screen grabs and photos as I went through the install for the fourth or fifth time.
1) Disk Utility before start:
2) Create the Windows partition:
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4) Windows message on why can't install
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   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
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   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         198.9 GB   disk1s4
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