Actually, after a couple hours more searching around i finally
stumbled across this bug report:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3013386&group_id=105970&atid=642714

I've spent so many years training myself that "Win64=yes" was for x64
builds and "Win64=no" was for 32-bit builds that i never considered it
might have some applicable functionality in this case =P

Despite the report seeming to indicate it was only fixed for 3.6 i
tried it out with my 3.0 build, and it actually seems to be working
just fine!

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
<edwin.cas...@fiserv.com> wrote:
>> Running 32 bit apps in a 32 bit shell is a great idea, but it seems less 
>> than ideal
>> that it excludes all possibility of viewing the registry as it "really" is.
>
> My point is that the operating system provides a 32-bit view for 32-bit 
> applications since they only know of the 32-bit world. A 32-bit application 
> can never sense the existence of a 64-bit world.
>
> In a 64-bit world there are 32-bit entities that live at C:\Program Files 
> (x86). When these 32-bit entities execute they believe they exist at 
> C:\Program Files. How can a 32-bit entity detect a 64-bit entity that lives 
> in the 64-bit C:\Program Files location?
>
> The same is true about the 32-bit registry hive compared to the 64-bit 
> registry hive.
>
> Perhaps you can write a 64-bit bootstrapper that can view both worlds and 
> disallow execution of the 32-bit msi package if the bootstrapper detects the 
> 64-bit installation. Of course, this doesn't prevent a user from directly 
> executing the msi package. Your options are limited.
>
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