Ubuntu/XP Dual Boot - Error 13

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Hey guys

Ive been using my Ubuntu/XP Dual Boot machine for about a year now with no problems. Last night i was playing some XCom on XP, then when i rebooted this morning, spent a few hours on Ubuntu, then went to boot XP only to get the Error 13 - Invalid or unsupported executable format message.

This is the result of my fdisk

Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000765c2

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        7112    57127108+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2   *        7113       14223    57119107+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           14224       14593     2972025    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           14224       14593     2971993+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

and my Menu.lst looks like this:

Code:
## ## End Default Options ##

title		Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-20-generic
uuid		6afb8cba-c392-4478-8c8f-cdc459b94b41
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=6afb8cba-c392-4478-8c8f-cdc459b94b41 ro quiet splash 
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
quiet

title		Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-20-generic (recovery mode)
uuid		6afb8cba-c392-4478-8c8f-cdc459b94b41
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=6afb8cba-c392-4478-8c8f-cdc459b94b41 ro  single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic


### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

title		Windows XP
rootnoverify 	(hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I'm not really sure where to go next. Ive googled it, but it's all pretty confusing and adding in the MAP cheat doesnt seem to work, or im not doing it right.

Any ideas?

I cant restore MBR as I dont have an XP CD with me, I also cant disable GRUB as I dont have a UBUNTU CD with me (lost in transit whilst moving), and my WiFi downloads at 50k/sec so getting a new one will take many hours (it droups out every 5 minutes).

Im completely at a loss :/
 
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