Boot Camp programs unable to open

Hi everyone,
I have a macbook pro 13 inch that I run Windows 7 on via Boot Camp. I have had Boot Camp installed for about a month and a half now, and until about a week ago, everything was working just fine. Then, upon starting up Windows, I started getting the Black Screen of Death. Right after the "Starting Windows" message came up and Windows began to load, my computer screen would go black and stay black, even though everything was still running, forcing me to hold the power button down and restart. I looked online for a solution and found a suggestion of turning the energy saver preferences to "Never" so that the display would never go to sleep. This fixed my problem for the time being, until today.
I got the black screen of death, in which I then inserted my Windows 7 CD and ran the command prompts of RebuildBcd, FixBoot, and FixMbr as recommended via suggested internet solutions. All of the command prompts ran successfully. I restarted my computer, and logged into Windows 7 via Bootcamp. However,now none of my applications or almost anything will work or open. I cannot open the Boot Camp Control Panel, I cant open any applications downloaded from the internet, nor can I open any applications or programs that I previously installed on my computer. I get the error message "Windows cannot find "Program Name Location". Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." when trying to open applications.
I can use Google Chrome which I had previously installed, but it no longer has an the Circle Google Chrome Icon. Many of my other applications lost their icons as well, and cannot be opened. If I download any type of application, for example, Safari, I get the error message described above when I try to open and install the application.
Please let me know of any advice that you might have as a solution to this problem. Thanks.

I am doing a TM backup now. I looked at the iDefrag and the drive definitely needs defragmenting, according to the software, but I thought with Macs we don't need to worry about those things. I want to do one other thing I read somewhere else as a remedy for this inability to partition the drive before taking the leap and doing the full erase and reinstall.
Here is the link on the internet: http://crounji.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/a-solution-to-your-disk-could-not-be-par titioned-error-on-boot-camp-assistant/.
And I believe another forum has discussed this topic.
Here is another approach I want to try: Boot Camp: Partition alert message when using Boot Camp Assistant
Farzad

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