Bootcamp Basics needed for noob(s)....???

Well I am completely new to Mac and after reading many forums regarding the choice of Boot camp vs Parallels/Fusion/Virtual Box, I chose the bootcamp road as I would prefer to utilise all my system resources for faster performance etc, even though I do have a copy of PD7 still.
But now after reading further posts it seems people are having a lot of issues with bootcamp.
I have read the Apple support document regarding the installation of Bootcamp/Windows 7 and it seems pretty straight forward other than the fact I don't have a Lion disk to install the bootcamp drivers, I know I need a blank CD/DVD but at what point do I use it??, this is not clear on the instructions.
I really want to be able to fully install Windows 7 on bootcamp with all required drivers either side without any issues/problems.
Is it so hit and miss or is there a way to actually install Windows 7 through Bootcamp without any issues, if so please can someone give us noobs a clear way of doing the install.
Would appreciate any feedback.

Found this for drivers:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4407

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