Disk will not partition

Hi,
I have a 1TB iMac, and recently removed my windows 7 partition due to a problem when i resized my Mac OSX Lion partition to fill up empty space. Now when i try to create the windows partition again on bootcamp, i click continue and message comes up saying "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows", and then i cannot choose the option of installing windows 7. Anyone know what to do?

You read what I said: shrink the volume.
If that does not work then take further steps.
I have bookmarks in user profile for public on this and other questions, because this (use to get asked daily) 1000+ times.
At worst erase and restore from [clone] made with [ Carbon Copy Cloner, Superduper, DU Restore, TimeMachine, ______ ]
iDefrag and iPartition are not guaranteed to consolidate free space.

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