GetAutomatix will not let me load

Thanks for your question.

A few notes:

1) You should'nt use Automatix. Using third-party packages is highly unrecommended, especially if your new to Ubuntu.
2) When starting the boot manager, it offers you all "old" kernels ever installed. So if you experience any problems with a new kernel, you are able to change back to your last kernel. You don't need to worry about having installed ubuntu "twice".
3) You harddisk might be full, so gnome can't start since it needs free space.
Solution:
When GDM starts (your login screen) press Ctrl-Alt-F1. There will be a text based login screen. Login with your username and password. After that, please execute "sudo apt-get clean" (it will ask for your password). This should free up enough space to at least start gnome, After that *immediately* clean up files on your system or uninstall some software to free up space.

Yes Automatix2 has a few restrictions in the US pertaining to the codecs... Hence its not recomended for Ubuntu users if they are new to ubuntu...
Secondly, GRUB lists all the kernels and OS's you have installed and you can always revert back to the older Kernel/OS if you are facing a problem with the new one... That wont be much of a problem...
Thirdly,
Your harddisk may be full/not full but linux runs by killing one application at random so it can run applications.. Thats not much of a problem while start up.. You must take care of the SWAP while partitioning.. Normally the swap should be around twice the size of Physical RAM/Memory on your system EX: you should have 1GB of swap partition if you have 512MB RAM to ensure smooth loading and running of apps in linux(normally Programs get loaded into SWAP or Virtual memory) before they are sent to the harddisk and processor for further execution.. Especially during startup...
Solution is:
When GDM starts hit cntrl-alt-F1 this will take you into command line interface and then you will be asked for your username and password and then execute
sudo apt-get clean
To free up some memory... That should start GNOME...
This is the whole concxept behind...
Regards,
Bhavani Shankar.

O.K guys sorry it's been a while but xbox mods are really cool. Now if I could just learn how to backup my games I'll be a happy camper. Bhavani Shankar , Markus Thielmann bot suggested cntrl-alt-F1 then execute sudo apt-get clean. Which I have done however, once I've typed in sudo apt-get clean what's suppose to happen from there. Far as I can tell nothing starts and there is no change in situation. And why can't I simply start xp goto the drive which contains the partition and delete some of my windows file to make space. This does not work, for I have tried it. I think my swap file is too small.

See, Sadly you cant do that.. Because Windows file systems are completely different Windows uses FAT(File allocation table) FAT 32 and NTFS(New technology file system) as in windows xp and vista... And linux uses file systems namely ext3 and ReiserFS (an ISO 9660 standard file system) which has a completely different architecture compared to fat or ntfs.. So it will NOT be recognised by windows.. As far as your disk problem goes please paste the output of sudo fdisk-l (small L)..
Bhavani Shankar.