Boot Camp MBP '11, W7 Install = Black Screen

I'm struggling with getting Boot Camp up and running on my new MBP.
Since it is likely relavent: I have installed an OptiBay in my MBP 15 (high end) with a secondary hard drive, with my SuperDrive connected externally via USB.
After creating a boot camp partition, the machine reboots with a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit install disk in the SuperDrive. The disk reads like it's preparing to install, the white screen stays up until the disk stops being read, then the white screen turns to an active black screen as if it is going to display something, but then it just sits at a black screen for ages until I just have to turn it off because it's not going anywhere. I've tried a number of different install disks, all with this same problem.
After an entire night of trying to get the above to work, I decided to remove the OptiBay and put the SuperDrive back in its place and try to install Boot Camp on the primary HDD. In fact after doing this I had even less success, the disk would read and the screen would stay white for a long period of time, and then the Folder w/ Question Mark image would blink on the screen as if it couldn't find what it was looking for to boot up.
I'm at a total loss here, haven't seen anyone else with similar issues and can't for the life of me figure out what is going on here. At first I thought it was my install media, then the drive configurations, and now I just don't know. I suspect drivers but I've also seen other people post they've installed W7 without issue so it's probably not that. Any ideas?

you could Try to disable the wrong graphics card driver:
Run the Windows installer,
wait, until the black screen appears, then, wait for maybe 15minutes to be safe
shutdown the computer by holding the power key for >10sec.
turn on the computer, press several times F8, as soon as the machine boots, until you get the windows startup menu options.
choose safe boot
Now windows will start, but there will be a messages that setup cannot continue in safe mode.
Do not click continue/shutdown.
press SHIFT-F10
A command prompt comes up
enter: compmgmt.msc
then look for the device manager,
expand the graphics card section,
right click the graphis card, choose "disable"
close the program
exit the command prompt
now click on the restart computer button
Computer will restat, setup should continue normaly
Finally install the apple supplied drivers.
does that help ?

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