It's possible that your wireless problems will be fixed in 10.04, but maybe
not. It will have newer versions of many packages and kernel.

The main benefit is that the "long term" versions tend to be more stable
than the ones released every six months. If you are happy with what you have
then I'd stay with it unless you get word from us early adopters that the
particular issue you are facing is finally resolved.

I guess the old saying if it isnt broke done fix it
comes into play once again.

There should be improvements in most areas, including your wireless,
depending on what sort of wireless card you have. Is it natively
supported, or do you have to run the windoze driver under ndiswrapper or
something of the sort?

If you're happy with it, and there's no change in the wifi for you,
there's certainly no need to rush into an upgrade. If it were me, I'd
boot up with the 10.04 live cd and see how everything works, just for kicks.

FWIW 10.04 will be supported longer.

My USB capture card works in 10.04 but didn't in 9.10. My 3G modem
works without any extra steps with 10.04 and though I could make it work
in 9.10 it now switches the memory device off automatically. Most all
Wifi locations show up without any problems but they did with 9.10 as well.

The newer the equipment the more you will benefit from upgrading but I
really like 10.04 and don't think it is a miss to upgrade. If you are
not sure give 10.04 some space of it's own and give it a try.

Just finished installing 10.04 on my MSI Wind netbook and it went very
smoothly. The BIG problem I had with 9.10 (constant and incurable flashing
brightness) is now fixed.
Wireless, sound, etc. - everything - seems to be working well. I'm just
putting Lucid on my AMD 64 system, but will use 32 bit O/S. It seemed to
choke and slow down using the 64 bit version of 9.10 so I'm looking for an
improvement here.
I'll report further later... so far I'm very favourably impressed!

I gave the card away and decided to just run the cord so its not that big of a
deal. It was a Linksys WMP54GS card. It really worked well under XP but it
had problems under Ubuntu. Im not much worries about it. The only thing I am
worried about now that I think about it is the video conversion and editing
software.

What video editing software are you concerned with? Openshot should be
in good shape, but if you are using a commercial video editing product
it may be tied to some obsolete release, something commercial vendors
seem to like to do.

The one I use the most is DeVeDe and I use Brasero to burn the DVD's.

I moved to lucid just before the first beta. no issues with the
distribution on my Laptop

If you are happy then why bother? However, if you want a faster boot up, new
themes, the Music Store, MeMenu, GNOME 2.30 and the latest kernel with all
of the advantages of that then it might be worth your time and effort.
Also 10.04 is good for three years support and 9.10 runs out in a year.

It is a question of personal preference, as always.

I actually downloaded the file last night and just tried using it as a live disc
and for some reason it took 15-20 minutes to just boot to Gnome when I would
have expect say 4 minutes like the previous live discs I have used. Upon using
it I went to do a sudo command and I was dropped from the gnome interface and
was put into command line and asked to login as root, which I was unable to. I
read a lot of issues within the Ubuntu forums upon the first release day, I see
there is a bug day planned for 5th May, does this mean if I install 10.4 I
should wait until say 8th may so I can immediately update the system?

It sounds like you got a bad ISO or a bad burn. Try re-burning at a lower
speed and if that does not work then re-download the ISO.

I ran the OS in a virtual box and that took so long, say ten minutes, that I
gave up on that on the belief virtual box was malfunctioning. it shouldn't have
taken that long in a virtual box, other ISOs haven't. The cd burned fine with
verification. ISO checksum was good. Maybe a hardware incompatibility issue.

It turns out when I tried booting the device from the iso and not the cdrom, it
worked fine in virtual box. So the issue was with the disc, however, the disc
is fine, and the disc check worked fine on the linux bootup, leading me to
conlude its a disc drive issue, and i realised I had just bought this drive and
didnt have it setup right in the bios. The bios showed some details about the
drive saying it can do udma2 which I changed it from auto to udma2, and it was
also pio4 which I also changed accordingly. However, despite this change the cd
still took ages to boot up and I know the disc can work fast because it was
burnt at 24x in the first place. So what is there to check besides udma and pio
setting? There doesn't appear to be any particular jumpers to look at.

After booting up an old Ubuntu it shows the hardware worked fine, so I wrote
another disc and it was the disc afterall. Interesting the other corrupt disc
passed the disc check both on the burn and on the linux but just happened to
work incredibly slowly.

Mine boots in well under 35 seconds from grub to login. I have been running
it since alpha one and it has always been fast. You situation is abnormal.
Yours is not installed if you are running it from iso, so it may improve if
you actually install it rather than run the live iso because the iso has to
go through the detection process each time.

Does your system have enough memory to meet the requirements?