Should Ubuntu put recovery partitions into GRUB?

I recently purchased an ASUS notebook (M50VM-B1), and I put Kubuntu 8.10 on it. It recognized my Windows Vista installation automatically, and it also recognized my recovery partition. It put both into GRUB as "Windows Vista (loader)".

 When I restarted my computer I was confronted with 2 "Windows Vista (loader)"s. I didn't know which to chose, so I picked the first one. It was the recovery partition. Unfortunately, when I booted to the recovery partition, a process corrupted GRUB, so when I rebooted, I only got a GRUB error, and I couldn't boot to any OS.

I figured out what had happened, reinstalled Kubuntu, and removed the first "Windows Vista (loader)" from GRUB. Thereafter, I didn't have any problems. However, I think that if someone who has less technical knowledge was faced with the same situation, they would probably panic and bring the computer to the repair shop. This would likely prevent that user from trying Linux again and possibly damage Linux's reputation.

I don't know that every manufacturer's recovery partition would do this, but it brings up an interesting question. Should Ubuntu put bootable recovery partitions into GRUB or let Windows manage it? If only Windows should manage it, is there an easy way for Ubuntu to differentiate between a Windows partition and the recovery partition, and only put the former into GRUB? If not, is it possible to label one "Windows Vista (loader)" and the other "Vista Recovery"?