Recovering bootcamp partition - is there a solution that works?

Dealing with bootcamp issues after a Lion upgrade seems to be a common problem with no agreed solution.
When I upgraded my iMac to Lion, the upgrade process couldn't create a recovery partition so Apple support advised me to use Disk Utility to create a small (5 GB)  block of free space on my harddisk for the recovery partition to use and then to use Disk Utility to enlarge the OSX partition again to recover whatever remaining free space was left after the Lion upgrade had completed.
This I duly did. However, after I enlarged the OSX partition using Disk Utility to recover the free space I found that a) the Bootcamp partition had been renamed "disk0s4" and b) when holding down the Option key when booting, the Recovery option was now labelled "EFI Boot" and appeared to boot from the regular OSX partition. Attempting to boot windows in Bootcamp results in a "missing operating system" error message.
I'm not so worried about the recovery partition as I have a bootable DVD and USB flash drive.
What I would like to do is recover some files from the Windows partition. There is a lot of opinions in the Apple suport forums about what works such as, booting Windows from the install disk and running the "fixmbr" and "fixboot" commands or using rEFIt or BootPicker (which doesn't seem to work on Lion).
Is there a reliable approach to fixing this problem so that I can at least read the contents of the partition, even if I can't boot from it? If I can't actualy recover the partition I'm not too fussed, so long as I can get the data off it.
Thanks...Macs

Why do you suggest installing Lion on an external h/disk? Is this because of problems with Lion or just suggested standard procedure?
Some of the options may work although I am unable to mount the partition at all (in OSX or by booting from a Linux live CD and trying to mount it from there) so I'm not sure how far any of them will get.
I haven't tried booting from the Windows DVD as yet.
If I run Verify on Disk Utility I get this:
2012-03-20 22:18:41 +1100: Verifying volume “disk0s4”
2012-03-20 22:18:41 +1100: Starting verification tool:
2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: Checking file system2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: ** /dev/disk0s4
2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: ba9a97
2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100:
2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: Disk Utility stopped verifying “disk0s4”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
Repair disk says this:
2012-03-20 22:31:06 +1100: Verify and Repair volume “disk0s4”
2012-03-20 22:31:06 +1100: Starting repair tool:
2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: Checking file system2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: ** /dev/disk0s4
2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: ba9a97
2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: Volume repair complete.2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100:
2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: Disk Utility stopped repairing “disk0s4”: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
I wondered whether the entry in the partition table had been completely screwed so I had a look with FDisk and GDisk.
GDisk says this about the partition table:
Disk /dev/disk0: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): FB4FA8FD-D192-4589-93E1-A19A9F0F29D7
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 13 sectors (6.5 KiB)
Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2          409640       869550263   414.4 GiB   AF00  Customer
   3       869550264       870727719   574.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD
   4       870727720       976773127   50.6 GiB    0700  Untitled
And this about partition 4:
Partition number (1-4): 4
Partition GUID code: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (Microsoft basic data)
Partition unique GUID: 94C06328-9817-4012-9C30-C97592E671C1
First sector: 870727720 (at 415.2 GiB)
Last sector: 976773127 (at 465.8 GiB)
Partition size: 106045408 sectors (50.6 GiB)
Attribute flags: 0000000000000000
Partition name: 'Untitled'
For its part FDisk says:
Disk: /dev/disk0     geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639]  Unknown ID
2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  869140624] HFS+       
3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 869550264 -    1177456] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 870727720 -  106045408] HPFS/QNX/AUX
From looking at the Fdisk and GDisk output I cannot see where the problem is occurring (although I know 2/5ths of stuff all about partition tables). I notice that the Bootcamp partition is now lacking a name although I don't know whether this matters or not and strangely FDisk identifies it as an HPFS filesystem whereas Disk Utility identifies it as MSDOS (FAT).

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