I realize now that I don't have any cds available to burn the linux live to.
Upon further research, however, I was able to find a program called Partition Table Doctor 3. This program found partition table error and virtually corrected them, showing me the original parititions that I used to have on the hard drive. This program is a demo only though, so it will not write the new table to the drive.
I am fairly certain this is the fix I am looking for, do you know of any partition table repair tools that I can use one time for free?