Before the goof, I had Boot Magic. I'm sure it put it in the MBR, where it ain't supposed to be. So I think my problem is that my MBR has been corrupted by LILO and Boot Magic is confused. In a fit of insanity, I chose not to make any boot disks, for linux, boot magic, OR partition magic. I am able to boot off of the Linux CD, but I think I'm just looking at the directory structure on the CD, not my computer.
Most distributions come with both rawrite and boot disk images.
Download a boot floppy from the Internet and use rawrite to write it floppy. When your at it try to figure out if there are any rescue floppies on the cd as well. Boot from your floppy and mount your hard disk partition. If this doesn't work please post your lilo.conf, there might be some other config problems. I'm sure I got one with partition commander.