And I thought one didn't have to worry about the blue screen of death on
Linux! lol Sorry, just couldn't resist.

Well, it must be either a codec (which Im thinking maybe not) or more
likely a video driver problem. As its the same on all the movies, surely
is driver related.

I have Sound Blaster Audigy on my machine, under windows my sound works
fine, under Ubuntu I get no sound.

There is another distro called PCOS, not to be confused with PCLOS (also good).
It is based on Xubuntu 8.04.1, but includes restricted stuff like Mint. Unlike
Mint it has tried to slim things down by including a less resource hungry
desktop, Flock instead of Firefox, etc. It is on Distrowatch. I am downloading
it now to try on my eeePC.

Since the problems are so widespread, I would give serious consideration to a
fresh installation, including wiping out your home folder after backing up
essentials, were this my computer. A second option would be to use a different
partition and keep the old one around in the meantime. You could also try a
different distro. Things just don't resonate. Most people have one or two
problems at most and many have none at all. This is unusual.

Since the problems are so widespread, I would give serious consideration
to a fresh installation, including wiping out your home folder after
backing up essentials, were this my computer. A second option would be
to use a different partition and keep the old one around in the
meantime. You could also try a different distro. Things just don't
resonate. Most people have one or two problems at most and many have
none at all. This is unusual.

Keep plugging away. You are making progress, slow, but it is progress. It can be
frustrating, I know, especially when the old worked reasonably well. Change
isn't always easy. Sometimes it is, though. I don't want others to be put off
with 8.04 just by your experience. Each person has to try it for his or herself.

When you say no sound, what do you mean? Have you gone to the Preferences and
tested for sound or are you just putting in a CD and not hearing anything?
These are two very different problems with different solutions.

I should have elaborated more on the issue. I just finished up
a dual boot xp and ubuntu 8.04. I did my sound checks and I get nothing.
I guess a driver was not installed.

The deal with sound issues, that needs to move to its own thread.