When I installed Ubuntu the last time, (current install), I deleted all the
partitions and let the system make it's own swapfile. It ended up making a
6.2GB swapfile on a HD that is 160GB with only Ubuntu on it. I'm not going to
worry about changing that cause it's not that important to me.
I did manage to get the problem resolved on a Ubuntu forum here,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1528366
I'm not exactly sure how it got resolved, but it did. You can read about it on
the thread if you haven't already.