Installed Windows 7 64 bit in Error - Can I replace with 32 bit Version?

Hello, last night I installed Windows 7 via bootcamp on my 20" iMac. All went well until I tried to install the Boot Camp support software and had a message saying that Boot Camp 64 bit is not supported on this machine. I did think for a while that I was stuck in my new Windows partition without a way of getting back to OSX as I hadn't been able to install the Boot Camp software but luckily this morning when holding the relevant key on the keyboard during start up I had the option of selecting my mac HD (phew!).
My question is what is the best workaround for this? Can I boot in to the Windows partition and install the 32 bit version over the 64 bit version or should I delete my new partition and start again from scratch? The 64 bit version didn't seem completely stable (there was no sound and the screen resolution didn't seem quite right) but I did have a multitude of updates waiting to install. Thanks for any help.

Boot from 32-bit version and do a clean install.
You can even begin while in Windows.
But before you do that, copy the contents of your OS X DVD's Boot Camp to a folder.
Find the file BOOTCAMP64.msi
Run as administrator and use "troubleshoot compatibility mode" via control + click.
Then that should run.
At least give it a try. I was/am in same boat (unsupported, does not support 64-bit version) like MANY others. And it does work. Otherwise I would be stuck with only using 1.9GB RAM and other limitations.

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