Double booting Snow Leopard and Windows 7

My school has licensed a number of copies of Windows 7 and there is some windows-only software I want to use, so I want to double boot with Windows 7. So far with Boot Camp, I've partitioned 5 GB of my harddrive and I'm at the point where I would install a Windows Install disk, but I don't have one because I got Windows 7 as a download. The download site required IE on a Windows operating system, so I downloaded it on a friend's computer and I now have an ISO file in a folder called "Windows 7 Professional (x64)" on a flash drive. I've ruled out the possibility of 10.6 not supporting 64-bit processing because I've read other people doing this. Does my hardware need certain specs? My MacBook is from Feb 2008.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

My internal HDD is only 120 GB large, but I do have a mostly-empty 1 TB external. I've heard differing opinions from my friends; could I run an OS and all of my Windows software off of my external? If not, I have plenty of space on my internal to spare.
I only have 2 GB of RAM on this computer (yes, I know its pathetic). I was thinking about full-out double booting, really. I assume DVD-burning is the only way to do this? And the ISO file is the only one I'll need to put on it? I have blank DVDs at home, but not here in my dorm room. Of course, I'll spend the extra couple bucks if I have to do.
Thanks, guys.

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