IMac Extreme + Boot Camp + Vista SP 1

Partitioned drive using boot camp and was able to successfully install Windows Vista w/ SP 1. System came up, inserted Leopard DVD to install drivers and ever since doing so, Windows will only boot into safe mode.
Have not tried seeing if Fusion can read the partition successfully or not.
Any ideas?

Update on this....
identical iMacs bought at the same time (when the debuted last year). Bootcamp install of Windows Vista w/ SP 1 works like a dream. Only change up from install directions (because of failure on other machine), was that post driver install, ran Apple updater and pulled down the boot camp updates. Worked with no issue..
On second machine (which assumed identical) not so lucky. Machine would only boot into safe mode after driver install. After getting into safe mode, disabled the ATI drivers and left it boot (successfully) back to normal mode running the standard Microsoft video drivers.
Download the ATI2600 drivers from ATI and installed. Video is back and golden, but without the dual monitor support that came with the Apple drivers.
Does anyone know if its possible to extract just the ATI drivers off the Leopard DVD and give that another go? I would really like to have the dual monitor support capabilities that I had on the first machine (24" iMac Extreme with a 19" Viewsonic monitor). Only difference between the two systems is the external monitor.
Thanks,
macfoo

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