New i7 8GB RAM MacBook Pro losing network in Windows 7

I have a new MacBook Pro running Windows 7 64-bit. In Windows it wil sporadically lose both ethernet and wifi at the same time, dropping to a self-assigned 169.254 IP address. To fix it I need to either toggle wifi or disconnect the ethernet and plug it back in.
This is a very annoying issue as the only reason I use Windows is to play games and I get disconnected at the worst times. This is whats strange though, when both ethernet and wifi cut at the same time, unplugging ethernet and plugging it back in will fix BOTH network connections. On wifi only, I am forced to disconnect and reconnect. I have tried reinstalling he drivers with no luck.
This happens on a wide range of places at my decent-sized college campus. I haven't tested it anywhere else as I only use my MBP for Windows at school, I have a desktop for gaming at home. Has anyone experienced this? My friend has the same i7 and his MBP seems to occasionally disconnect as well, just not as often as mine.

I think I have isolated the source of this problem. It's the Pitstop Professional 9 plug in. I un-installed this, and everything opens quicker than greased lightning. I re-installed it and it's back to slowsville.
Unfortunately Pitstop is essential to my workflow.
Until recently I did my pre-press on a Mac G5 with Acrobat Pro 7 and Pitstop 6.5. I never had this problem with slow file opening. But it seems that the delays would occur when I used the plug-in with large complex files.. So it would open files as fast as you'd expect from an elderly machine. But starting to use Pitstop would result in a prolonged period of staring at a spinning beachball.
I wonder is there any way to stop the Pitstop plug-in from initializing until it is used? So the plug-in stays inert until you select the tool from from the menus.

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