Ugh... I broke GRUB.... Again!

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Hey!
Well this is how I have my partitions:
SDA 1: Windows 7 Reserved Partition
SDA 2: Kubuntu
SDA 3: Windows 7 Ultimite
SDA 4: Empty Partition (For a retail OSX install when my brain feels up to have a shot at it)

Anyway, I installed Kubuntu first. Then yesterday I installed Windows 7.
Windows 7 as usual killed Grub.
So I ressurected it from the Kubuntu live CD.
It worked perfectly until I typed in update-grub into the terminal so I could get Windows to show up in GRUB.
Now, when I boot up I boot up directly into Kubuntu without grub showing up first.
What have I done?
How can I fix this.
I should probably start to learn more about Linux terminal commands to prevent future mistakes like this

Hey man,

GRUB can be a beast. You have a few options.

If you are just worried about windows for now, boot up to the windows 7 CD, go to a command console and use BCD to fix the master boot record.

if you want to get linux back up and running, you can just boot up to a live cd and issue the grub commands from there.

I would give you some links, but some anti-spamming features on the site require me to have 5+ posts to add links. I am really interested in the regex alex uses because no matter what I did I couldn't get around it.

Also, I should have read the whole post. Make sure you have a sane timeout time set for grub. If it is set at 1 or something, you may not see the grub screen ever.