Lion boot screen won't load?

I recently upgraded to Lion OS X on my iMac 27 and it seemed ok for a day or 2 then last night I shut it down and this morning it wouldn't boot. It goes as far as the mac logo on a white screen and a spinning circle and then goes off to a white screen. It has been rebooted several times and has been able to log back in with no problems. I tried to do a Recovery via the Option button when booting but its all locked up. As in can't click or select anything.

the same thing happened to me after the last Snow Leopard update, right before Lion came out... and i couldn't get time machine to do a restore... glad you got lucky with that.  i ended up doing a complete reinstall of the OS, and then restoring my data.  had to reinstall all my software - no big deal - but at least all my documents, photos and music was able to be restored.
i thought it was hard drive failure at first.... almost ended up sending in for replacement.
anyway - good luck - hope it doesn't happen again.

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    Disk: /dev/disk0          geometry: 91201/255/63 [1465149168 sectors]
    Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting       Ending
    #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
    1: EE    0   0   1 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
    2: DA   25 127  15 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  980102336] <Unknown ID>
    3: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 980511976 -     262144] HFS+     
    *4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 980774912 -  242186240] HPFS/QNX/AUX
    mbltccmbp:~ trevorcobb$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk1
    Disk: /dev/disk1          geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 sectors]
    Signature: 0xAA55
             Starting       Ending
    #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
    1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  488397167] <Unknown ID>
    2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused   
    3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused   
    4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

    Ubuntu was installed after Windows 7, that is correct.
    Ubuntu and Win7 are installed on the final 250gb section of the 750gb hdd that I have connected to the Optical Drive SATA connector using a HDD optibay caddy.
    i can successfully boot into the Filevault2 unlock screen, then into OSX on the SSD using the stock Apple EFI or rEFIt.
    i can also successfully boot into Ubuntu using rEFIt.
    The Apple EFI bootloader and rEFIt both can see the Windows installation and claim to be able to boot it, but it just hangs at a black screen with blinking cursor.
    i have quite a bit of experience messing with partition tables in troubleshooting a friend's borked dell laptop that had a bunch of dell custom partitions on the drive. i've used Hiren's bootcd and many of the tools on it before. This EFI GPT + MBR stuff is a whole different animal for me though.
    Can I use any of the commands listed below from a windows 7 recovery USB stick?
    Bcdboot C:\windows
    BOOTREC /FIXMBR
    BOOTREC /FIXBOOT
    BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD
    BOOTREC /SCANOS

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