Upgrade questions for early 08 iMac from SL to Lion and Vista to Win 7

I've been doing a lot of reading on this forum and elsewhere and have a few questions on the best way to do this so it goes smoothly with the least amount of issues.  My configuration is in my sig below.
Unless someone talks me out of it this I want to go from Snow Leopard and Windows Vista Home Premium to Lion and Win 7 Home Premium.  I would like to go to Win 7 64 bit but Apple doesn't list my machine as supported for 64 bit so I may have to go 32 bit.  I've read elsewhere that others have gone to 64 bit with little to no problems.  The individual components in my iMac
Here is what I think is the logical order:
1. Install Lion
2. Previous 2.2 Boot Camp partition should remain intact.
3.  Lion Boot Camp Assistant should now be version 4.0
4.  Run Boot Camp and download software to burn to CD.
5.  Launch Windows and install new drivers using burned CD.
6.  Install Win 7
Does this seem correct?  Any suggestions?

Do a clean install of Windows. Hence, remove the Boot Camp partition you have now so Lion can manage the drive.
Windows 7 Home Premum 64 Bit System Builder

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