Generic PnP Monitor - Windows 7 32 bit & Bootcamp 3.1

I am using a new iMac 27" that contains an ATI 4670 card. I installed the latest version of bootcamp via Apple software update. I setup a new partition, installed Windows 7 32bit Ultimate. Upon boot, I inserted the Systems disc that came w/ the iMac and installed all of the bootcamp drivers. I then downloaded the 3.1 update and ran it as well. I then installed all current windows updates.
After rebooting (and by the way, I rebooted in between all of those installation steps - bootcamp drivers/3.1 update/windows update and all 3 times the iMac Display only has the Windows Generic PnP montior driver).
Is there a way for the display to pick up a native Apple monitor driver?

Perhaps you could think through the implications that, maybe I have already done the steps outlined in that article when installing Windows 7, because in fact, I did.
I still have the issue.
Once more, unless you have first-hand knowledge of a solution to this problem, please reframe from quoting me the already easy to find knowledge-base articles present in the Bootcamp support section which I've already read them all, and tried them all, to no avail. I'm looking for someone else who has had this same issue and found a fix for it.

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