Right now I’m stuck in a linux console until a bunch of upgrades take place. I can’t decipher these WordPress dashboards when I’m in this text-based web browser. So I don’t dare try to moderate comments, because I think I’d probably get the wrong ones so we could all read about penis enlargement instead of the things we actually talk about here. My system’s fine, it’s just a pain in the butt to upgrade sometimes. Now I’ve got to go find the “publish” button in this wall of plaintext crud. Argh.
May5
Ballastexistenz 
Go for Ubuntu — I just did Ubuntu’s upgrade to 8.04 (their new Long Term Support level), and it went quite well. On two different systems (one Kubuntu), I was able to do the while thing from within X Windows. It did take hours, and stalled for dialogs (inappropriately) a few times, but both systems finished the process with no coredumps, catch-22s, or Sudden Disassembly Events. ;-)
This was Ubuntu that got screwed up, but it’s fixed (and fully upgraded) now.
Lol! Glad you got things going again.
Oh, and you might appreciate this: http://xkcd.com/424/