ah, i figured it out i burned another copy at the slowest rate just to make sure, then i slowly checked everything after i installed drivers...it ended up being my sound card. i tried the windows 7 drivers, but they didn't work, so i guess i'm just gonna use the onboard sound and sell the card...
i just installed a fresh copy of windows 7 ultimate x64 rtm it installed okay and ran just fine, but practically nothing runs. firefox refuses to start. google chrome won't install. utorrent won't load. ccleaner won't load. pretty much anything that isn't 64-bit isn't working, which is...