Ok, another "Current NTFS volume size" problem

Which I am deathly afraid that I have exacerbated.

Let me detail what happened.

I resized the partition, getting ready to copy it, and once I tried to copy it, GParted gave my the "Current NTFS volume size" error.

I landed at this forum after much searching, and I tried to fix the problem myself, but I believe that I grew confused, and when I tried to edit the pbr and mbr files, I put in wrong values.

I should say here that there was originally only the NTFS partition on the drive, and it started 2048 sectors into the drive.  When I started
fdisk -u -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders, total 488281250 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x69205244
 
   Device  Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1  *        2048      283209885               7  HPFS/NTFS

parted /dev/sda unit s print:

Model: ATA ST3250820AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 488281250s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number  Start  End         Size        File system  Flags
 1      2048s     283209885s  283207837s  ntfs

I ran the following commands to extract the mbr and the pbr:

dd if=/dev/sda of=sda-xcrln.mbr bs=512 count=1
dd if=/dev/sda of=sda1-xcrln.pbr bs=512 count=1 skip=2048

I then edited the pbr (because I was shrinking the partition) to read
00000020   00 00 00 00  80 00 80 00  9C 68 E1 10  00 00 00 00
I didn't record the value before I changed it

When that didn't work, I edited the mbr:
From: 00000020   00 00 00 00  80 00 80 00  F8 7F 1A 1D  00 00 00 00
To: 00000020   00 00 00 00  80 00 80 00  A2 94 1A 1D  00 00 00 00

And I got to where I am now, with one big NTFS partition that encompasses the entire drive
I undid the change to the mbr, but that didn't change anything.
The current mbr and pbr files can be found here:
MBR: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/373779/sda-xcrln.mbr
PBR: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/373779/sda-xcrln.pbr

I have dd'd the drive to an external one to work on, and I found this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/153973, which I followed until step 4. because I didn't get the ASCII text that it said I would, I got the text "ntldr is missing press ctrl+alt+del to restart"   I then went to sector 2048, and saw the change that I had made on offset 20, and then I went to 2049 and the ASCII at the top said NTLDR.

So I know where the NTLDR is, and how big the partition was or is supposed to be (283207837s).

Currently, when I run fdisk, and parted I get: (remember that I am on a copy on a different harddrive)
fdisk -u -l:

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x69205244

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   ?   218129509  1920119918   850995205   72  Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2   ?   729050177  1273024900   271987362   74  Unknown
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3   ?   168653938   168653938           0   65  Novell Netware 386
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4      2692939776  2692991410       25817+   0  Empty
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

parted /dev/sdb unit s print:

 Model: Maxtor OneTouch (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 488397168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number  Start  End         Size        File system  Flags
 1      0s     488397167s  488397168s  ntfs

Can anyone help me?