Installing Parallels 5 with Bootcamp on 2010 MBP w/ 512gb ssd

Has anyone had success installing P5 on one of the new 2010 MBPs with the 512GB SSD?
I'm trying to install Parallels 5 on my new MBP. I've installed Win7 with bootcamp and it works fine.
I then installed Parallels 5 and would like to have parallels use the bootcamp partition. However Parallels won't offer up the choice to pick a bootcamp partition, only to load a new guest OS from CD/DVD.
Parallels support site leaves a lot to be desired and I've tried to get support from parallels via email, but so far they have been slow to respond.
I found one post on their site:
"It seems that the problem could be related to the SSD's block count (977105060 for the 512GB model used by Apple in the new MPB) not being a multiple of default head (16) * sector count (63) values assumed by the prldispservice which, upon initialization, emits the following error messages in /Library/Logs/parallels.log:
16:03:46.325 F /dimg:152:1d03/ Can't determine sectors count for size 977105060
16:03:46.325 F /dimg:152:1d03/ Error 0x80021011 when opening the disk. Releasing image."
Has anyone had success installing P5 on one of the new 2010 MBPs with the 512GB SSD?

Maybe a new post in the BootCamp forum will help.
DALE

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