New imac with 2 partitions, want to install windows 7

Hello all
This week I bought a new Imac.It came with Lion on it and I needed Snow Leopard so the Apple store created a second partition and installed Snow Leopard for me.Now I want to install Windows7 and in my research I read that bootcamp can only be installed on an internal harddrive with a SINGLE partition.Is this true.If it is, what is my best options for windows 7. Ideally I would like to run 7 natively without using Parallels.Is it going to be possible to have 3 seperate partions for 3 operating systems? I don't have any discs for the Snow Leopard installation. Is there any way to burn some and also a Lion recovery disc or whatever it is called.I want to do this right so any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
Dave

Simple answer is you don't. Boot Camp create one partition for Windows and all other files. Once you start screwing around with partitions on the Windows side you'll be lucky to boot back into either operating system.
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