I got a new motherboard, and I have a slot that says ATA133 is that the same as Ultra SATA? my old hard drive i guess uses older technology and needs a narrower cable.

ATA133 seems to be a Maxtor specific hard drive controller.
It is supposed to be backward compatable with ATA100, but I don't see anything that says it works with Ultra SATA....
You might have to get some new hard drives, as well....
:(

Its weird if you search for ultra sta it often comes up with the 133 designation.

All of the ATA interfaces will pretty reliably negotiate the best protocol they have in common. So, if you can physically plug the drive into the board, it will probably work fine.

SATA is a newer, physically different interface than the older ATA interfaces.

Most any new board will usually have both SATA and ATA interfaces. While SATA is the better of those two, you should be able to plug your older drive into the ATA interface and it still work fine (albeit, slower than a new SATA drive would be).

i got it fixed, had to get a new HDD, got a 40gig one for $20 i pwn

Interface doesn't matter anyway. You're not going to get more that 100MB/s out of a spinning platter hard drive.