I did a complete reinstall. Giving Win7 40GB, and Unbuntu 30GB with a 10GB
swapfile. I didn't know what size the swapfile should be, so I just made it
10GB. Followed the steps in the article, that were basically the same as what
was online, and still it's taking 5-6 minutes to boot up to Ubuntu. Both OS are
completely up to date.

I'm so disillusioned.

I guess what I'm going to do is just install each OS separately and just wipe
the HD clean after trying each one out.