I take it that compatibility mode doesn’t help?
You could try compatibility mode...Win 7 64 premium has that but only ultimate and professional have the “virtual shell”. I know the you can run IE in both 64 and x86 compatibility mode(for websites running certain flash apps that haven’t been updated to run in 64 mode. I had a video driver I wanted to run in win 7 32 bit but when I tried to install it, it said it wanted xp and shut down. So I left clicked on the exe file and asked it to run in xp3 compatible mode, started the program and the video driver installed clean as a whistle.( I have premium on my lap-top). So you can try to left click on your desired driver and ask the compatibility mode to try to trouble shoot or you can choose the mode to try(try xp sp3) to see if it will install and run...even in 64 32 bit apps will often run very well. Other wise you need 64 ultimate which will let you virtualize an xp envirioment and supposedly they let you download xp free for the process.