Cant Remove Failed Linux Partition

So a while back I attempted to install Ubuntu on my MacbookPro with an install CD but I failed.
I notice though, that somewher in this process my computer created 4 partitioned drives on my hardrive.
Now, my main drive only has 60 GB of space because its being taken up by all the other partitions.
But when I try removing the partitions I get a different error for almost every one:
Error for 1st partition: Mediakit reports partition (map) too small
Error for 2nd partition: Filesystem resize support required, such as HFS+ with Journaling enabled
Error for 3rd partition: Could not modify partition map because filesystem verification failed
Error for 4th partition: Mediakit reports partition (map) too small
I've been trying to solve this problem for weeks, some help
would be incredibly appreciated.

Clone your one good partition to an external drive, then boot from the external drive, open Disk Utility on the external drive, select the internal drive, and repartition and reformat it from scratch as a single partition. You probably won't be able to resize the faulty partitions, and I wouldn't depend on things to work properly even if it appeared you had been successful in resizing them.
Once the internal drive is repartitioned and reformatted, clone the external drive back onto it and resume normal operation.

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I just wanted to use a Virtual Machine to run Linux, because that is what I was advised to do recently, instead of dual booting.
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http://refit.sourceforge.net/
The uninstall instructions to remove the EFI program from your EFI firmware parittion is here, but like the rest it hasn't been updated since Snow Leopard days back in 2011. So it's unknown how things will go with Lion, Mountain Lion or Maverick.
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http://refit.sourceforge.net/doc/c1s3_remove.html
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