Super Grub Disk is awesome. Thanks for the recommendation.

I ended up booting from liveCD to used gparted to extend the size of my ext3 jaunty partition to cover the extra space and moved my swap to the end of the drive. I figured I may as well go ahead and restore grub the old fashioned way through the command line since I already had the liveCD booted.

Thanks to you, X1R1, everything is finally in order and working beautifully. Many thanks for the help.