Sent a lodgement to a well known BTC marketplace just before this hit, from a .7.2 Beta client. Obviously gone from the client but will it ever confirm and if no can I recover em?
Yes. This problem was with the formation of one block, and a block is naught but a container of transactions. All the same transactions are still being put into blocks by the 0.7 miners. The wallet version you run is completely unrelated to the problem, this problem only pertains to the version of mining software. AFAWCT absolutely all transactions will be handled properly, save the block rewards for the miners who mine into the losing chain of course.