How I put Windows 7 Media Center on a Mac Mini

Mac Mini, core 2 duo, 80gig HD, upgraded memory to 3gig(not needed). Boot camp, Windows 7 Pro.
I got my mac mini to be a media center (Home Theater) system which will serve video from my home server.  I did not plan on having any media on my mac mini, hence the small unit with the 80 gig HD.  The result was / is very good.  This will play DVD quality video in an upscale, 720p resolution, smoothly and cleanly.  When Windows 7 came out I wanted to try Windows Media Center but didn't want to put a big box mid Tower in the family room. I wanted a small inconspicuous foot print. It took me a while to realize I already had such a unit, the Mac Mini! Duh….  So the project was started.
There are two ways to go about this,  One is to run a windows application with in Mac os-x, but that wouldn’t work here,  I needed to run the operating system with minimal overhead. So this leads to the second option, install Windows 7 to run natively.  There are two ways to do this.  Format the HD by over writing the mac OS,  or use a product included in the mac os called boot camp.  The advantage to using Boot Camp is you can keep the Apple OS and all the programs you already have.  I  liked this option better so, now the install path is set.
I started Boot camp in OS-X, which asked me how much HD space do I want to use for the new operating system…  Since I only had an 80 gig HD, chose 30 gig.  Boot camp took about 30 seconds to finish that task and was ready to reboot. I put the Windows 7 install DVD in the drive and started the reboot.
The Windows 7 install screen started and the install was on.  This went smoothly with no problems.  After the install was complete and new drivers were automatically downloaded, Windows 7 wanted to reboot one more time.  After this last reboot I was presented with a fully functional Windows 7 OS.  There was a problem with the audio driver, which I had read about during my research for this project so I put the Apple OS DVD (Leopard in my case) in the DVD and windows found boot camp.  I started boot camp windows version, it installed the drivers for windows 7 / Vista) and after one more reboot I had my Windows 7 running on a mac mini.  All in all rather painless.  Windows Media Center works great and I even put a Media center plug in called “My Movies” and made it even better. Now I can watch movies video and more on my big screen TV with Media Center on my mac mini!  Nice

Another great blog on putting Windows 7 on a mac: Paul Thurrott's winsupersite
Link I used in this project:
using-boot-camp-to-install-windows-7-on-your-mac-the-complete-walkthrough/
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The following link is to a store I purchased memory upgrade for my mac.  At the bottom of the page they have links to "How to" video's These were very valuable to me in the upgrade process.
How to install more memory in the mac mini.