Recovering Data from a deleted Mac partition

Through no fault of my own, (an IT department at a well know digital data storage company that will remain nameless) I had all the partitions deleted from my hard drive. No data was damaged, but the Mac partition and the FAT 32 I had windows 7 running on with bootcamp were both deleted. My hard drive is now 250 gigs of unallocated space.
Is there any easy and inexpensive way to recover that data? I'm pretty sure I can't just "undelete" the deleted partitions but it would be nice to get my data off so I don't have to go from the DVD back ups from christmas time.
Anyway I found Disk Warrior and Drive Genius that claim to recover data but they are both about $100.
Any ideas?
Here's the irony of the situation, I was using the utility given me by the IT department while trying to setup a NAS device so I can create regular time machine backups in case anything happened to my lappy. So by trying to get a system working that would help me protect my data, it deleted my data. I would have been fine without it. GRRRR...

Hi, Take the HDD out and connect it to another system then run R-Studio against it. It can recover FAT partitions and I have used it many times with great sucess.

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