Okay, I spoke too soon. Every time I boot Parallels I must go through the same procedure listed above. Don't know if it's a windows problem or parallels but it is unable to remember the location of my boot camp partition at all. I've also noticed that, though everything says the CD/DVD drive is connected it is not. On reboot I must do this to connect the drive:
1. Open Device Manager
2. double-click on the DVD/CD drive
3. It will tell you that the drivers are installed, but it cannot locate the drive.
4. At the bottom disable the drive.
5. Then enable the drive and it will find it.
On restart I must go through the same process again.
I'm not sure what has happened, but obviously something is scrambled somewhere. Bottom line is that I am able to get Windows operating correctly, but not without a lot of reconfiguration each time I do it.