After your positive comments I did
a manual partition of my hard drive with deleting, editing, resizing,and adding
and installed Ubuntu and it is working great. It also loaded the boot loader
which I was able to choose between WindowsXP and Linux which I did not have
during the 9.04 installation.

I would like to know how to improve my screen resolution. Everything is very
small and need to enlarge what I am looking at and not been able to find it so
far. I am running Mozilla FireFox.

Also during the rebooting after the installation there were about 60 entrees of
I/O errors which I would like to know if this is something to be concerned
about. Here is what one of them looks like:

3706.5063971 end_request: I/O error,dev sr0,sector 505488