Prepartitioned harddrive with lion and bootcamp

I'm having issues obtaining the drivers for windows 7 through lion on a prepartitioned harddrive.  Before performing a clean installation of lion, I created 4 partitions on my drive, then installed lion to the last partition (I have reasons for needing to do this).  I would now like to install windows 7 to the first partition, however I was unsure how I was supposed to obtain the drivers for it.  After looking on here, it was suggested that they be downloaded through the bootcamp assistant before installing windows.
My problem is this: Every time I attempt to download these drivers, the bootcamp assistant throws me an error that "the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition."  This error prevents me from moving forward with downloading the drivers.  Now, before you suggest that I remove my other partitions and create a single unified one, please understand that I need to have lion installed on the 4th partition on my harddrive.  By unifying the partitions, lion will be moved to the first partition, which is why my prepartitioning is necessary.  Is there some other way that I can legally obtain the drivers for windows with little hassle?

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