Unable to boot up/into (win7) bootcamp partition following Mountain Lion upgrade

Greetings to all, I hope somebody could please help me with this issue;
A few days ago I upgraded to mountain lion, and immediately after the upgrade was completed and the system rebooted, I discovered that a new partition (Recovery-10.8) had suddenly come into existence in place of my bootcamp partition upon holding alt on boot. My bootcamp partition does show up now after re-syncing boot tables in rEFIt, though all that happens while booting up is a missing operating system error. I tried the win7 boot dvd, but it does not and did not see the partition; but very strangely, it referred to my computer as %1, and my account name in OS X is simply “1”. This leads me to believe that my bootcamp partition got knocked back a spot due to the introduction of that pesky new partition, a problem all too similar to many others’ pleas for help, though too individually complex for a simple copy and paste type of a solution~ and for a lowly user like me to tackle.
Please do help me good sirs,
Regards,
Royce
P.s. bootcamp partition never showed on startup disk
P.p.s. in disk utility it cannot be mounted, is referred to as disk0s4, and is greyed out

I see two things. First, notice this fourth line from your GPT. It says ~73GB of disk space is not allocated to any partition, it's free space. Why?
40          409600       1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640      742851896    2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
743261536   1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
744531072   153633664
898164736   78608384     4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
The good news is that partition 4 for Windows in the GPT and MBR have the same start - end sectors. However in the MBR no partition is marked bootable. One must be bootable and it's customary for Apple to mark the Windows partition bootable. I strongly suspect this is why Windows is not a boot option, and it's rather easy to fix.
4: 0C 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 898164736 -   78608384] Win95 FAT32L
My suggestion is that you reclaim the missing free space before you proceed with MBR repair, but missing ~73GB of space isn't hurting anything. Try the following and report back:
diskutil list /dev/disk0
diskutil resizevolume /dev/disk0 limits
Again both are read-only commands and do not alter the disk information in any way.

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000001d0 ff ff 07 fe ff ff 00 10 8d 09 00 88 14 09 00 00 |................|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
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00000000 57 ac 81 37 d5 fe 20 bc c8 1b 93 fe 7f eb 7d bf |W..7.. .......}.|
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00000090 b1 cf 87 a7 c3 83 ff 00 be bd 2f 4f fd d5 f5 5f |........../O..._|
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00000170 d2 f5 5e dd 55 49 26 01 e3 48 d4 f1 6d cd 0f 56 |..^.UI&..H..m..V|
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00000190 9a e7 5c f2 ad b7 a6 44 6f ac a4 a1 a9 fe f9 b2 |..\....Do.......|
000001a0 bb 9b c4 7f 27 fd 77 fb d8 ad d5 53 fc e2 d2 74 |....'.w....S...t|
000001b0 cd 47 ca 2d 26 a3 01 b8 b5 d2 ae ad 75 2b 98 83 |.G.-&.......u+..|
000001c0 88 ab 04 12 81 73 c9 f9 c5 c4 0b 56 b8 7f ef 62 |.....s.....V...b|
000001d0 ff 00 89 62 ab 7c bd f9 75 e5 2f 2f 6a 17 8f 6c |...b.|..u.//j..l|
000001e0 b3 49 6d 73 f5 74 16 b7 93 7d 6a dd 16 d6 45 96 |.Ims.t...}j...E.|
000001f0 16 5f 57 f7 84 c4 78 7a 52 dc 4b 2c 90 7c 11 45 |._W...xzR.K,.|.E|
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