Hey Paul,
I just wanted to start out by thanking you for all the information in this thread. You've made the switch back to 7 seemless for me.
I do have a question for you, or anyone else who may have had this issue. I installed the Intel HD graphics 4000 driver in the machine, and it works, but it doesnt give me the higher resolution that it did with windows 8. The max is 1366 x 768.
Does anyone have any solutions to increase the resolution to what it was before?