Well, my computer is having A LOT of unexpected problems running Ubuntu. I'm done with it for the night, but I'll try again tomorrow. I tried to update my adobe flash player, for instance. It failed, and it said some contingency wasn't satisfied or something like that. When I tried to download anything else, the same thing happened. When I tried to put more applications into the toolbar, it froze. I put in the wireless key, and when I rebooted, it made me enter it again (I have to have my dad put it in every time because he likes to keep the network secure). I tried to enable desktop effects, as per the forum link you posted, and it asked me if I wanted to enable the nVidia driver. I said yes, and it came up and said the effects couldn't be enabled. The problems keep piling up to the point that I'm starting to think I would be better off sticking to Vista.