Windows 7 Completing Installation + Bootcamp + Freezing

Hi All,
I have read the forum and see that it is quite common that the Windows 7 is freezing up on the "completing installation". I have tried a few of the suggestions, for example, increasing hardrive from 25G to 60G and even putting a USB keyboard and touching keys on it, and well, nothing has worked. Here are the details:
1. 2010 Core Duo 2 Intel MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) with 4G Ram
2. I successfully installed W7 on this MacBook Pro once with 25G of ram, but had to restore my lion and destroyed the W7 partition.
3. Reloaded Lion
4. Went to bootcamp to install W7
5. Made the MacBook Pro OS bootcamp DVD (with the drivers I assume)
6. Made attempt 4 times with 60G partition to install W7
7. When installing W7 did the advance and custom option formatting drive to NSTF
8. Windows 7 will reboot once and then freeze on completing installation, even the mouse arrow freezes
I need some realistic solutions that will fix this problem. I have paid my dues, I have read the forum solutions, nothing worked that I tried.
I need to install W7 for graduate school work, otherwise would be quite content to remain pure Mac OSX user. I don't want to have to dump
my MacBook Pro over issues like this, but rather piqued at boot camp giving me so much trouble. I would rather run W7 natively on this macbook
rather than use some crap like parallel desktop which is horrible and slows performance down.
Warm Regards,
Geeky
PS - Mac fanboys unite, please help out a brother on this one.

Hi Mr. Murphy,
Thanks for your reply. I appreciate it. I don't believe anything is wrong with my hardware (bad ram, ESD, and etc). However, I do agree that there is something that the Windows installer doesn't like. I am already barebones, per say, as I am still running on out of factory hardware. Is there anyway I can verify that my hardware is working appropriately in Mac osx?
As for the DVD, it's legitimate copy and DVD from MS. I even tried the 32 bit version instead of the 64 bit. Hence, there is definitely something with my environment that it doesn't like. I just wish there was a way I could determine what that was.
I'll consider VM as a last resort, but what really weirds me out is that this went in two months ago and now it is not. Granted, I was operating on the first version of Lion.
I have this on warranty still. Would you advise I take this to a apple store and see what they find?
Warm Regards,
Geeky

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