Upgrading Vista 32 Premium to Vista 64bit

Hi all,
Hope you can help me. I currently have Vista 32 Premium installed on a Boot Camp partition. It's working well and all but I want to take advantage of my 11gigs of RAM on my Mac Pro 2006. I want to upgrade the 32bit Vista to 64bit Vista.
So I insert the 64bit Vista in the Disc tray of my Mac Pro and then let it autoplay while in Vista. Problem is the installer tells me I need to run the setup by booting from the disc. Okay, simple enough. I reboot my Mac Pro and hold the Alt Option key and select the Vista 64bit setup disc as the boot option.
Once in the installer, the Upgrade option is grayed out. It only allows me to do a fresh install of Vista 64. It also warns me that if I proceed, I will lose all of my data in the current install of Windows. It's not what I want.
Is this normal? Is Microsoft that strict that it won't allow one to upgrade Vista 32 Premium to Vista 64bit? I thought that was permitted. Any thoughts? Any way around this without having to do a fresh install of Vista 64bit and then having to re-install everything?
Thanks in advance.
ADP

That's what I was afraid of. Is there any function with the Windows System Transfer utility so that I could create a full backup with it and then use it to transfer my personal settings and most, if not all, of my programs? I would really like to transfer my MS Flight Sim X and Crysis saved games to the new Vista 64 install.

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