Triple Boot Macbook Pro

Hi, so a while back, I used bootcamp to add a windows 7 partition on my Macbook Pro.
Recently, I wanted to try Ubuntu 12.10 on the same macbook pro, so using reFIt (a bootloader) and now reFINd, I installed it. Now I can access both my linux partition and my mac osx partition, but I get a black screen stating that the windows os is missing. I've already tried using the ubuntu boot repair, and the windows repair disk. I posted this question at another forum, and I was told to create a hybrid MBR partition, but I was confused about that and wanted to see if anyone else had any suggestions.
Thanks

I upgraded to lion when it first came out, and again to mountain lion when it came out. Windows worked perfectly fine before I installed ubuntu.
What's strange is when I created my ubuntu partition I was told to make two partitions, one for the swap disk (1.1GB) and one for my actual linux partition (It's not showing up here for some reason, but it was 10 GB). When I did diskutil list a few days ago this is what it looked like:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 192.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data 10.0 GB disk0s4
5: Linux Swap 1.1 GB disk0s5
6: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 45.7 GB disk0s6
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *17.3 MB disk2
1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Flash Player 17.3 MB disk2s2
But now it looks different without me changing anything...

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