Boot Camp Settings Not saving (MBP Mid 2001, W7)

It seems that Boot Camp is not saving my settings for either the trackpad or the display. Everytime i boot into windows, i need to reset the settings to get my prefered functionality back.
I am running Boot Camp 3.1.2 on Windows 7 on a MBP i5 2.4.
Any ideas? i am currently trying to reinstall, but this happened on my first MBP i5 (which was stolen.)
- Jason

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