Windows 7 freezes under Apple Boot Camp

Today I installed Windows 7 Pro on a Macbook Pro with Boot Camp. I ran into two problems I figured I should document:

• First, Boot Camp would not proceed past the offer to burn a CD with drivers for the disk. It's a bug, and I was able to ignore it without problems; the networking and graphics came up w/o problems.

• Second, after installing Windows Defender and rebooting, Windows would freeze at the login screen. This too is a known problem, with lots of suggestions on how to fix it. What worked for me was booting into safe mode w/the command prompt (every other safe mode would freeze), then disabling the Windows Defender service with MMC. After that, I was able to boot; after that, I was able to set it to "Automatic Start", reboot, and I've had no further troubles.