Installer Crashes...

I should also add that I am trying to install it to my hard drive. I have the CD running Ubuntu, but I can't run the installer for the hard drive, as it crashes and that is the problem.

Ok, it sounds like you have successfully managed to get a LiveCd session of Ubuntu working. Firefox on the top taskbar should allow you to surf the internet from there
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
Notice what this guide says about persistent image - ie that things saved to the desktop and Documents wont get remembered but you can try to save things to the hard-drive through the "Places" menu.

Here's a guide to installing a dual-boot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

But first please try to check the md5sum of the Cd
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

Also this guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
might have something helpful to say if the 1st Ubuntu download didn't work out too well.

Note that the 32bit Desktop Edition of Ubuntu tends to be the best one fo most machines. Even on my 64bit machine it is still best, very fast and fairly easy to use. the 64bit one got needlessly complex.
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/getubuntu/download.

Anyway, i hope something here helps!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

I think it's a good idea to try a few things in the LiveCd session, like check your md5sums in the LiveCd session and also check to see if it's easy to surf the internet. perhaps have a quick look through the examples to test the office packages and some of the multimedia on your machine. If something doesn't work straight away then don't worry but let us know as it might point to some other issue :)

I don't have the LiveCD session. I downloaded it onto a DVD-ROM, and ran it from there. Anyways, the md5sums are fine, and I'm using the 32bit version.

I have gotten the download started, but almost halfway through I get an error message. It says I either have a bad disk reader, need to bring it to a cooler room or something like that. I have tried installing it several times so now I have several partitions on my hard drive. Suggestions please?!?!

Check that. It is the md5sums... Weird... I just tested it again, and they are different... Interesting...

I'll download it again, and try installing it again...
Thanks!

Oh yeah, and also, is there a way that I can get rid of the bad partitions? I installed 3 or 4 of them... Is there a program that can help get rid of those, because it is taking up about 8GB of space :P
Thanks

Lol, it doesn't matter if it's on Cd, Dvd, Usb stick or whatever we still tend to call it a LiveCd session. I guess old habits are hard to break. We are beginning to call LiveUsb sessions LiveUsb because they are significantly different (and much trickier to set-up in the first place) although many people are calling LiveUsb "DoaS" (Distro on a Stick) instead just because it is such a different type of session.

Anyway, Ubuntu is small enough to fit onto a Cd and it is much better to use a Cd because of the very much lower burn speeds. Also it's a bit odd bu it seems that the cheaper the Cd the more likely it is to work well. Perhaps the more expensive ones are more optimised for data storage rather than for booting up from?

Yes, the program you are looking for is called GPartEd and you can see how to get there from figure 3 in this guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
Take care with it because it does delete partitions and all the data on them really quite fast. At least with GPartEd it only starts after you click on the "Apply" button so you can undo your instructions right up until that point. However if things do go badly wrong this guide might be able to help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)