Wireless Internet Trouble - Vista Ultimate on intel iMac w/Bootcamp

I successfully installed Vista Ultimate onto my new iMac using bootcamp. However, when I boot into Vista, I cannot connect to the internet using the built in wireless card.
When I go to device manager, Vista recognizes that I have a Broadcom wireless adapter, but it gives an error saying that it cannot work. The info that it gives me is below.
*Device: Broadcom 802.11 Network Adapter*
*Driver: Provider: Microsoft*
*Driver: 4.82.28.56*
*Deviced Status: This device cannot start (code 10)*
I tried installing the broadcom drive from my leopard DVD and it crashed Vista. I deleted the current driver (which doesn't work) and reinstalled a driver that I downloaded and it didn't work. I just downloaded and installed Bootcamp update to 2.1 and still I get the same device status.
Can anyone help! I can't even get to the point where other people are having problems because their wifi is super slow. At least that would be progress for me!

I have Vista home premium 32 bit, on the iMac and my I downloaded Broadcom driver version 4.170.25.12. Going through a slightly odd Broadcom website I found and downloaded it. The speed I get is perfect but in the course of a day it will disconnect from the router frequently for maybe 5-10 mins. Still not good enough so at the moment I am stuck with a ethernet cable across the room. What driver version are you using?

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[email protected]

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