Windows 8 Problems with initial instalation...

All,
Can you please give me some advice on installing Windows 8 on a Macbook Pro 13 inc early 2011 model?
This is a compleatly fresh instalation onto a new Samsung SSD Hard drive... I do NOT have any instance of OSX on this computer (My Mac OSX Mountion Lion is on a external Thunderbolt HD). I downloaded the bootcamp drivers ONLY and copied them to a CD for instalation under Windows 8).
Without formating or initilising the Samsung Hard drive I inserted the Windows 8 RTM Disk and booted up the computer, and allowed Windows 8 to format a partition and it created 2 partitions (Recovery and System) inadition to my Windows 8 partition.
After instalation I incerted the Mac Drivers disk and instaled using Setup.exe.
After reboot I've noteced 3 major issues:
1) No Audio - Divice Manager is reporting an error with The High Definition Audio Controler i've tried to run a repair, uninstalling the device and then reinstalling using the file on the disk but it dosn't fix the problem.
2) I can't use the shortcut keys (FN) to set display brightness Keyboard backlighting etc.
3) When I try to access bootcamp control panal I get an error "An error occerd while tring to access the startup disk settings.
Could you please point me to where I might resolve these isses Thanks in advance - CES

Apple does not yet provide any support for Win8 which means there are no drivers for Win8 which is why you don't have any wireless support for Win8. I suggest that if you wish to run Windows you revert to Win7.

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