I had a lot of trouble getting Windows 7 to dual boot with OS X. I do finally have it working with the Chameleon 2.0-RC3 boot loader (and not EasyBCD).

The part about "I then restart the computer without the Thumb Drive and it starts Windows 7" did not work for me at all. Windows 7 refused to boot, and I kept getting an "0xc00000e" error. I was able to fix this by following Post #5 from this thread. If I can remember the steps correctly, here's what I did:

• Boot netbook with bootable Win7 USB thumb drive.
• Click on "Repair"
• Open a Command Prompt. Type the following commands:
  • diskpart
  • list drives (the main hard drive was shown as drive 0)
  • select drive 0
  • list partitions (partition 4 was the Win7 partition in my setup)
  • select partition 4
  • active
• Without closing Command Prompt, alt-tab to the main Repair window.
• Start the repair. It will fix the boot error. But don't press "OK" because it will force a restart.
• Alt-tab back to Command Prompt. Use the same commands as above for diskpart except make the OS X partition active.
• Alt-tab back to the Repair window and click "OK" to have it restart.
• Windows 7 now correctly boots after choosing it from Chameleon boot loader. Installation of EasyBCD wasn't necessary.

Windows XP
I tried for a long time to install XP, but it never worked. I slipstreamed SATA drivers and all of that, but it never finished installing or would just blue screen. The Windows 7 DVD and USB drive eventually worked.

USB Drives used for the install of OS X and Win7
These two thumb drives were essential in fixing problems. It's also much faster to install Windows 7 from USB sticks.

• Small USB drive with Chameleon Bootloader (512 MB)
  Follow mechdrew's initial instructions to write the NBI_083F image to a USB drive. This drive always worked when everything else failed (OS X wouldn't boot, Win7 wouldn't boot, WinXP wouldn't boot).
• Large USB drive for bootable Win7 install (16 GB)
  I wasted a lot of time re-installing Win7 from DVD. I eventually found these bulletproof instructions for making a bootable USB drive from the Win7 DVD. (Remember, you must use diskpart from Vista or Win7 as the XP version won't recognize USB drives.)

Extra KEXTS
I tried to use some extra KEXTS from Minh Danh.

• VoodooBattery.kext: fixes the estimated battery time display.
• VoodooSDHC.kext: allows the SD slot to work (I didn't test it though).
• VoodooPower.kext and VoodooPowerMini.kext: these kept getting umounted during the verbose boot, so I eventually did not include them in GeneralExtensions.

Function Keys
The function keys do work on my 1000HE Hackintosh. For example, I can use F9, F10, and F11 for the Expose keys. Only some of the blue "Fn" keys work. I can press Fn-F5 and Fn-F6 to lower and increase screen brightness. I can press Fn to access the PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End functions. The Fn keys for volume control do not work. You can use Keyboard Maestro (free trial) to map Ctrl-F10,F11,F12 to Mute, Volume Down, and Volume Up, and it works very nicely.

Final Thoughts
So I have OS X 10.6.1 and Windows 7 working really well on my Asus 1000HE (firmware 1104). It took a huge amount of time, and I was only able to do it because of the extra time from Christmas break. I was lucky in that the built-in wireless card is interfacing well with OS X: it reconnects during startup but after waking up from sleep, I have to "Turn Aiport Off" and then "Turn Airport On" for it to connect to WiFi (using a WEP password because I have an old clamshell iBook on my network that can only connect by WEP). Thanks again to will1384, the makers of NetbookInstaller, and the Dell Mini community for sharing all of their knowledge in getting this to work!