I appreciate all your replies. I'm saving these emails and going back to
them and once in awhile I get it!

I'm not being a wise*** here. I am clueless to kernal, bios, sudos,
distros, wubu, etc. however, once in a while I figure some of it out, like
the iso, and last night, I don't know why, but c. beck said something about
a bootable CD and the function keys and I fumble around on the web and
learned the F2 was what I needed to push.

Another example of how green I am. I found something about changing the
password when we first messed with that in Ubuntu - it said use
Cntrl+Alt+F2 and that took me to a dark screen with a bunch of meaningless
(to me) code. There was a place for a login: to I put the password I used
when I installed unbuntu, the mouse doesn't work so I hit enter and it asks
for a password: so I enter the password and it starts all over again. I try
again and again. I'm stuck in this thing. I press all the keys and try key
combinations and finally the only way I know to escape is press the kill
button and restart. This is no big deal. Maybe I'll get there one day.
Right now I probably don't belong there. I have know idea what I'd find if
I got there, but I'm betting I wouldn't know what to do so I'd just press
the kill switch and hope nothing changed and if it did change I'd just do a
re-install.

Maybe I should have tried another OS, maybe there's something askew in that
laptop.

I know I have a big problem when I don't know what questions to ask. I
don't know the terminology, but I google stuff and I'll keep on. I have no
doubt if I stand in the rain long enough I'll get soaked, esp. with you
guys throws buckets on me.