went a step further and upgraded from feisty.
have a few odd issues
Compiz does not run on boot its in my sesions
network manager has changed so I can no longer connect to my University
wireless.
finally the issue of having to respond the the keyring prompt is back
after having been covered since dapper. the old bit of code and the
pam-keyring deb does not seems to work. will see what happens on final.
never have had issues with Ubuntu recognising 1440x900 here though.