New MBP: Vista crashes during install w/Boot Camp-any suggestions?

Trying to install vista on new MBP. Using Boot Camp, everything seems to work until the very end, and Then Vista says it couldn't finish due to a problem with a device(I'll have to check the exact error at home tonight....)and that I will need to restart and re-install. Then it gets stuck restarting and going to the same message over and over. so frustrating....
This is with a fresh copy of OSX 10.5.5 on a new MBP 2.4 with 4G of ram, right out of the box. New copy of Vista SP1, and following the bootcamp instructions to the letter. I installed all Apple software updates before launching bootcamp. Other than the Apple updates, am I missing something?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

You would do better posting in the BootCamp forum here:
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Boot Camp was a response to public challenges at the time to see who could find how to install Windows on a Mac - which is totally okay thing.
Then you want Apple to do more than any normal PC vendor selling a laptop where people have to do things like deal with BIOS, drivers and all the things you have had to deal with, for Windows.
I'm not disagreeing, let alone arguing, I agree that hardware abstraction layer type stuff Apple would need to do. But I don't think Apple needs to do more than get Windows installed. Drivers, AV, and all the stuff that comes with Windows doesn't change. But it should not BSOD when you install something you are told you need.
I wouldn't be surprised though to see Windows 7 eventually support Apple hardware out of the box so to speak.
Cookie cutter answers are part of today's customer experience "level one" is no level at all, but a lot of times - and it takes a lot of work - to translate feedback and problems into "cook book" before you get to the troubleshooting (level 2 and above).
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What I see is the first shipped BIOS/EFI firmware on any device or system is not the one you want.
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In 2008 Early Mac Pro, most all systems would freeze on wake from sleep. Took two months before an EFI update was issued that cured the problem. There is/was also a problem with "inrush current" and PSU.
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