Woohoo!!!! I hope...
OK, ran the Ubuntu 12.04 Live CD again and double checked Gparted. The / and /home labels were not showing up on their respective partitions, so I re-entered them and shut down and rebooted. I just shut down and restarted 3 times in a row ... it succeeded each time!
Now, I will say that a "restart" does not work ... it locks up on the purple screen. However, a complete shut down and start has been working.
Thanks to all who helped me out ... (and those who were silently giving me moral support behind the scenes!)
(P.S.) Reboot appears to be working now, too.
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