Recover lost partition

Dunno if this is the right place to put this but here goes.
So, last night I'm looking at my desktop and notice I need to clear out my stuff. Organize and make it look nice again. So after a while of deleting and moving around files on my Mac OS X 10.5.1 desktop, I noticed I had 20gb of space left on my entire MacBook hardrive. So the adventurous young me decided I would partition my drive once again to install Ubuntu 8.04 R4 so I can run Wine and have all 3 of the major operating systems running on one laptop.
Great right? Well, as I had before, my disk wouldn't partition (validation error) when using bootcamp assistant AND Disk Utility. Also, since the initial install, I not longer have my Leopard install disc. So I insert my Mac OS X 10.4.8 MacBook install DVD's to run Disk Utility off there. Here's where things went wrong.
I was confident I could use Disk Utility. I mean, I've used it quite a bit throughout my months of Leopard. So I fire up the disc, go right to Disk Utility, and instantly to my disc and hit partition. It didnt have the same layout as the one I was used to, but that's ok. So my rookie mistake happened here. I didn't hit split as I was supposed to, I just created a new partition on the disk. I made it slightly less than the size of free space I knew I had left.
Well, I closed out and restarted like any excited user would, only to discover I booted into the disc media again without holding down the 'c' button. So after 2 more times of this I go into the disk to check my boot installs. Turns out I partitioned it wrong and lost some system files. So the only thing I could do was install Mac OS X 10.4.8 on the part of the second partition that is in the empty space on my original partition, install firefox, and log into here.
And this is where I sit now. So can anyone help me in attempting to recover my old partition? or at least point me in the direction to recover about 40 to 50gb worth of pictures (both home and business related photography), music (both downloaded/ripped and my garageband audio files), and videos (both ripped dvds and projects for school)?

thats the thing. i dont have the resources to backup (no really, i dont.) BUT i do have a good friend with a very large external hardrive whom will let me use it for the time being to transfer recovered files to, thus allowing me to whipe this drive entirely (should i 35x write it with 0s?) and a buddy with a spare leopard disc whom is graciously letting me use that.
so basically ive come up with this simple (ha) procedure; I can boot from leopard disk, plug in usb thumb drive with recovery software, plug in hardrive, recover files, wipe my drive with 0's 35x over, install leopard, and finally, transfer back all my personal files and applications i was able to recover. (+theoretically of course+.)
the only problem is, what data recovery software could i possibly use? ive spent HOURS now looking for HFS HFS+ (and general Mac) data recover suites/utilities and cant find a single thing other than stellar phoenix mac edition which i dont want to pay a ton of money for.

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using ML 10.8 something I tried appleXsoft but no luck.

My best suggestion is
Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery
http://www.macintosh-data-recovery.com/
Download the free trial version of the software and use the option "Search Lost/Deleted Volumes", It will scan the drive and show you all lost partitions list on preview. Once you click on the selected partition it will show you again 3 options ,
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Advanced Recovery- This option recovers data from formatted volume and scans each and every block of volume for lost data.
Deleted File Recovery.- It scans unused blocks of volume to recover deleted data.
On successful recovery the software will show the files in folders view with the folder structure..In case you are unable to see the desired results you would need to go for Raw Recovery which will show results on file basis.This option is only required incase the previous option does not give you the desired results.
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have u made the recovery cds?in that case you must be able to restore your partitioning scheme to the original shape
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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
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2012-03-20 22:18:49 +1100: Disk Utility stopped verifying “disk0s4”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
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2012-03-20 22:31:12 +1100: Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block: ba9a97
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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
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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
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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
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