Win7 x64 install fails at boot with alternating Mac and Cross-Circle Logo

Thanks for reading.
I have a new late 2009 i7 2.6Ghz Macbook (6.1 model) that I purchased in February this year. I'm having real problem trying to get a Windows 7 DVD to boot on it; whenever I try (either by using the bootcamp assistant to parition my drive then start the boot process, or by holding down the OPTION key, or even using the C key at boot) instead of the normal Windows 7 boot process, the disc spins, then I am left with an alternating Apple logo with a circle with a angled cross line through it, sometimes showing a folder with a ? mark.
I have tried resetting the PRAM, using other Windows 7 media, but I just can't seem to get a disk to boot. I have even tried wiping my Mac parition in case it was a corrupt partition by backing up to a timedesk then reinstalling, but again when I come to install Windows 7 I get the same problem.
I can boot the Mac OS install disks not problems.
Really appreciate if anybody has any guidance or resolutions?

Hi - no nothing plugged, except my external DVD drive.
I managed to install TechTool Pro's emergency EDRIVE from DVD, and have managed to reinstall Mac OS X without any problems, so unsure about a hardware problem. All TechTool tests come back ok, so no issues seem visible from that.
You might be thinking why I am using an external DVD; well this is because I've taken out the internal DVD using OWC Datadoubler http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/DDAMBS0GB/
I have a 512GB SSD in the normal hard drive space, and a 500Gb Hybrid disk where the DVD drive was. The drives are seen perfectly well in Max OSX; indeed when I did a reinstall I used the 2nd internal hard disk as the time machine and then restored from it.
Could it be a problem with partitions or some issue with the EFIboot from the Windows 7 DVD's? I've tried looking at rEFIit http://refit.sourceforge.net/ to see if that would help, but no luck.
The data doubler shows examples of this being used in my mac model for a specific Windows implementation (which is why I bought it) so don't think its that. Anybody have any ideas?

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