Win 7 in Bootcamp multiple updates, Apple drivers lost?

I have a mid April 2010 MacBookPro that i have been running Windows 7 in Bootcamp & usually accessing via Parallels 5 which uses Bootcamp as a virtual machine. & running Snow Leopard
I really don't need Windows much any more, but decided I want to keep it accessible via Parallels & I want to upgrade to Mountain Lion.
Parallels 5 is incompatible w Mountain Lion so taking advantage of Parallels 5 to 8 upgrade offer.
So realized I'd better do some prep before all the installation & realized that I hadn't kept Windows updated--just Security Essentials. It was showing outstanding updates going back to Dec 2011. So I downloaded & installed all those. At one point I was prompted about a driver & told Windows to fix & it did--sort of.
I also had where Windows wouldn't boot during the process, but I think part of it was that it hadn't finished w installing the updates. After I shutdown it did work.
I also then went & updated Bootcamp which I had avoided doing thinking it could have been the reason for major blue screen problems in 2011.
But I'm wondering if it has lost the Apple drivers. The track pad is not working well. Not sure if it is just setting the speed (which I'm not sure where to set since I use it so infrequently) or whether the drivers got messed up.
I'm planning to shortly boot into bootcamp & run a Windows back up. (Time Machine is regularly backing up Mac side)
After that, I plan to read & follow the update procedures from Parallels to get ver 8 installed & set up which I'm hoping will go smoothly.
& then I plan to install Mountain Lion which I have downloaded. & will have to figure out how to set up the new Cloud features, etc. May set One to One for help rather than struggling on my own.
Does erratic track pad response in Windows indicate a problem w Apple drivers? I don't know why they would have gotten messed up unless it was the fact of not keeping Windows & Bootcamp updated until now doing them all at once--well Bootcamp after all the Windows updates.

Now it has gotten worse. I wish I had documented what I had done, but I think it was after I ran some addtional updates. Can't remember if it was the Office updates or the addtional Win7 updates.
But now besides the error message when I try to open my virtual machine in Parallels (which I got both before & after running Bootcamp updates), now 2x at least it did not boot into bootcamp but instead showed that there were problems & the fix screen came up. Again.
I did manage to run the Windows backup on my new WD Passport partitioned back up drive w about 50 GB formatted for Windows & the rest of it for Mac so I can use it w Time Machine.
It backed up files in libaries & personal folders for all users 1.86 GB
But I'm hesitant to go ahead & upgrade Parallels 5 to 8 w the purchased update to download & run as well as doing the upgrade Mountain Lion. It does not seem wise to install new or additional software on top of an unstable Windows/Bootcamp set up.
So wondering my options. I'm guessing that the solution to an unstable Windows OS would be to reinstall it as a clean install. But then the normal thing to do would be to run the updates which took a long time the other day & then messed things up so the track pad wasn't tracking well. Before later causing it to crash.
Just got word from Parallels suggesting a claen install into Bootcamp.
But also considering just installing it as a new virtual machine in Parallels & dispensing w Bootcamp.
I hope this makes some sense. I'm very tired but want to put these questions out there so when I get back to it, hopefully there will be some suggestions/recommendations.
Thanks.

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