Boot camp - internal mic not working

I've spent hours reviewing various forums and have tried all suggestions I've found, to no avail. That said, I'll detail my steps here in the hope that someone can help, or that I can help someone else, or at least drive someone else nuts.
This is a 20" iMac (early 2008) running Snow Leopard + Window 7 Professional w/ Boot Camp 3.1 drivers (you know, the ones that fully support Windows 7).
By default (that is, without Boot Camp drivers installed), Windows recognizes a "High Definition Audio Device." Sound doesn't work, but the internal mic does work, as evidenced by the fact that speaking or tapping on the top of the computer results in movement of the green bars that appear in the Recording Devices dialogue.
After installing the Boot Camp drivers (or any more recent version of the Realtek drivers, including 2.41 that became available today), the "High Definition Audio Device" becomes "Realtek High Definition Audio." Sound works (poorly compared to OS X, but **** at least something comes out), but the microphone does not. In the Recording Devices dialogue, speaking, tapping, yelling, and swearing doesn't register per the green bars.
I've reviewed many a post, and have tried the following:
1. Uninstalled the Realtek driver, leaving only the default Microsoft driver, reboot, updated to the Realtek driver by browsing to the files from Device Manager instead of running Setup, reboot. This installs the driver, doesn't install Realtek HD Audio Manager, sound = yes, mic = no. Crap.
2. Uninstalled the Realtek driver, leaving only the default Microsoft driver, reboot, installed the Realtek driver by running Setup, reboot. Sound = yes, mic = no. Crap crap.
3. Uninstalled the Realtek driver, leaving only the default Microsoft driver, reboot, installed the Realtek driver by running Setup as Administrator, reboot. Sound = yes, mic = no. Crap crappity crap.
4. Uninstalled the Realtek driver, leaving only the default Microsoft driver, reboot, installed the Realtek driver by running Setup in Vista compatibility mode, reboot. Sound = yes, mic = no. Crap crappity crap crap.
So I'm certain both the microphone and speaker hardware work. The Microsoft driver gets me mic but no sound, and the Realtek driver gets me sound but no mic.
Any helpful thoughts and comments are MUCH appreciated, and for the love of God if you're going to jump in with "what are you doing running Windows 7 on a Mac anyways" please save it.
Thanks!

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