XBox and Media Center on Boot Camp

My PC just died so I installed Windows 7 on one of my macs and really all I use it for it Windows Media Center to stream movies to my XBox 360. I went through the windows 7 install and all was good. When I tried to get my XBox to see the media center, it would not see it. Is this just not compatable?
Thanks,
Andrew

I tried doing a search and found nothing. The link you gave does not help either. I know how to set up the xbox as an extender. Was working fine when I connected it to a Dell with windows 7. Now that the dell died I moved windows 7 to my iMac with boot camp. Now it will not connect. I try to connect but I am never given a code. Its like the xbox doesnt see the computer. Is there something extra I need to do being that this is on mac hardware? Is it just not compatible?

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Log Name:      Media Center
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Media Center Extender
Date:          3/3/2010 10:13:20 PM
Event ID:      543
Task Category: Configuration
Level:         Error
Keywords:
User:          WILL7\swsander
Computer:      WILL7
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Media Center Extender Setup failed to create the PnP device with ID: uuid:10000000-0000-0000-0200-00125AC6E86F (timed out after 120000ms).
Error: Element not found.
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Media Center Extender" Guid="{7B7838A3-6562-4269-BB7A-97B0D9593882}" />
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    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>4</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-03-04T03:13:20.805493500Z" />
    <EventRecordID>333</EventRecordID>
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    <Execution ProcessID="9408" ThreadID="9760" />
    <Channel>Media Center</Channel>
    <Computer>WILL7</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-2626302321-2836749625-3976135476-1001" />
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    <Data Name="Timeout">120000</Data>
    <Data Name="Error">-2147023728</Data>
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Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Media Center Extender
Date:          12/10/2010 9:51:55 PM
Event ID:      592
Task Category: Configuration
Level:         Warning
Keywords:
User:          Eric-PC\Eric
Computer:      Eric-PC
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
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    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-12-11T02:51:55.176149000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>428</EventRecordID>
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Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Media Center Extender
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Event ID:      506
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User:          Eric-PC\Eric
Computer:      Eric-PC
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<System>
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User:          Eric-PC\Eric
Computer:      Eric-PC
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Level:         Information
Keywords:
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Computer:      Eric-PC
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Media Center Extender Setup started with the following settings:
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