Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit on early 2008 MacBook

I've searched all over the internet as well as here on the apple site, I can't find a definitive answer either way on this; can I install windows 7 64-bit on my early 2008 MacBook it has 4GB of ram and a 320GB HD inside of it and I plan on wiping the drive and starting over completely before I do the bootcamp; this is because I have a partition on the drive currently and you can't bootcamp an internal HD that already has a partition on it.
I already have Snowleopard installed on the machine so I have bootcamp 3; everything I've seen and read is on vista and XP 64-bit but I can't find a single thing on Windows 7 64-bit on my machine.

If Vista 64-bit was supported
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1846?viewlocale=en_US
and there is an article on which Macs gets "Apple knighted" with Windows 7 "official" support...
Macs that won't get official W7 support, whatever that means
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3920
If you aren't comfortable on your own... your searches and what you call definitive....
Windows 7 on 27" iMac 2009 might be useful
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/26/how-to-install-windows-7-onto-the-new-27 in-imac/comment-page-1/

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