BootCamp won't install on MBPro1,1

I am flummoxed.
MacBookPro1,1. Running boot ROM MBP11.0055.B08 (EFI 1.2) and 1.2f10 (SMC 1.0).  These are latest as per http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1237
Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
Attempting to run BootCamp get:
Boot Camp Assistant cannot be used.
You must update your computer's Boot ROM
firmware before using this setup assistant.
Bet I am missing something really obvious. But danged if I can figure it out. There are no MBP firmware updaters that I can find that will run on this computer.
Thanks for any thoughts.
RIck

That error message never has or is resolved due to "out of date firmware" so blinid alley / dead end / misleading.
What do people do? incense, voodoo.
3 things that might help:
zap PRAM
Repair the drive - DVD being last resort.
Reload the system back from your clone or TimeMachine or other method
Have bootable clone, try running BCA from there.
As I said, I have yet to see this due to firmware, one of those "who wrote this?" errors.
Falls in with "some files could not be moved" or lack of unfragmented disk space.
In the area of what BCA does, iPartition and Paragon CampTuneX (9.0 or later).
Under Lion 10.7.3 people have said that they were able to siimply use Disk utility and format a FAT partition, no BCA, and able to install Windows 7.
Two things BCA normally does is partition and download drivers.
Only need to DL those once as they are universal package.
And, to tell people, "Sorry, your system does not qualify"
(Windows 7 and/or 64-bit etc not supported)
If you can dig out of this rabbitt hole, my guess is PRAM and repair method.
Your working with 2006 model. My guess is Apple is looking for EFI version that came out later, maybe looking for UEFI. But UEFI didn't come out until November 2008 and didn't make it iinto MacBook / MacBook Pro until '08.
I assume Lion is not supported on that model either?
What would happen - knowing you have bootable backup etc -  if you just shriink HFS and create 60GB FAT. Then just boot from Windows 7 DVD.
If it doesn't work, stretch HFS back to full size.
And sometimes the "shrink and expand" can be used to help move files and make it easier for BCA to create a partition where before it could not.

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