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You are most welcome dajohnson89. And please feel free to thank Dinesh anytime, he would probably say he never gets enough "thanks" anyway!
You only use the live CD to access a "Terminal". After you "mount" the Linux partition, as wee pointed out, the terminal commands reinstall the version of Grub from the Linux on the hard drive. So the commands in this thread will work for Grub2, that is permanently reinstall Grub2 to the MBR of the hard drive. If you have an older distro version, you need to use the commands for "Legacy Grub".
A point in fact: you cannot install Grub from a Live CD, that is without mounting the Linux partition on the hard drive. As you say, it will not work.
I have no personal experience with this issue, however I can see the possibilities for a conflict between Windows and Linux. If you are using only the Grub boot manager and Windows saves its sleep state settings and shuts down, when it reboots (or restarts) the computer will have to go through Grub first, then to Windows. What is going to happen with the sleep state settings saved to memory?
I would say you have made a good guess and would avoid hibernation.
Thanks for posting your solution!
Cheers!
Robert