Mac pro windows 7/64 pro bootcamp installer fails

Question

just finished update of osx and fresh install of w7/64pro. on install of the
bootcamp drivers i got a blue screen that took out the w7 install. this happened
three times in a row until i figured out to just ignore bootcamp drivers and
let windows be. it seemed to have drivers for the mac gear natively anyway as
it turns out. in device manager the keyboard and mouse are there and listed as
having apple drivers.
problem is that the keyboard has limited functionality. the numeric keypad
numbers don't work and the eject button doesn't work. not sure what else but
that's enough for me to want to get things fixed.
read up on things and found that my era of mac pro is compatible. tech support
confirmed this. read that i should have bootcamp 3.1 so i downloaded it.
couldn't install it, though, since i never installed bootcamp to begin with. i
get an error dialog that i need 3.0 before i can update to 3.1.
just for laughs i decided to try installing drivers from inside windows rather
than from the bootcamp windows install process. booted into windows, started
the installer from my snow leopard cd and the install hangs on the nvidia
driver installation. makes a certain amount of sense since i don't have an
nvidia card. i have an ati 2600xt. at least it didn't blue screen and take out
the partition.
anybody seen this?
any tips on how to get past this particular level of computer ****?
thanks,
BabaG

Answer 1

think i got it working. will take a few days of working to find kinks probably, though.
found 'bootcamp64.msi' on the snow leopard cd while booted into windows. r-click
on it and selected 'troubleshoot compatibility.' worked my way through the settings
there and the install seemed to go ok.
there was one quirk in that the mouse cursor frazzed into something like a vertical
stack of very tiny pointers. that was interesting but didn't prevent me from using it
until i needed to reboot for something. once back after the reboot the cursor was
back to normal. will watch for more oddness over the next few days.
BabaG