I did it! Well it's installing as we speak. Craziness. My mid 09 MBP started to not read my DVD with the ISO file for windows 8, I'll tell you what, those cleaning discs you can buy made my SuperDrive work again, thank god, I was getting really frustrated. Here's what I did.
-open bootcamp assistant 5.0. (If your on 10.8.3 like I unluckily at this time was)
-click install windows 7
-partition the space you want
-here's the clincher, if you have a windows 8 install disc, bootcamp will not proceed, you need to have a windows 7 iso, which you can find on the net, it's not piracy if you don't intend to license it, we are just using it to "trick" bootcamp to partition our drive correctly.
-your MBP will restart and go into windows 7 install mode
- click the x to cancel the win7 installation, it warns you it will restart.
-upon restart, you'll hear the beloved Mac chime, immediately hold down the "option" key
-you'll now see your main startup disk, and recovery disk, hit eject and yank that trick or treater win7 disc and insert your windows 8 disc
-wait a bit and you'll see the windows disc icon pop up next to your main startup and recovery disk.
-click the windows disc and install!
*you may have to plug a wired mouse in at this time, my touchpad will move the cursor, but clicks are not recognized...yet
-------my install is almost complete, I will post results here for any other orphaned by apple and win8 mid 09 MacBook Pro users. There will be some driver work we must do next I'm sure.