Wow, a mega large comment!

flowingfire:
It sounds like this is actually more of a support query than a bug report and 
you may get faster, higher quality responses posting your issues to 
https://answers.launchpad.net/ or http://ubuntuforums.org/ ...

> "the login screen -still- slides around"
I have a distant memory that you need to be careful about the order resolutions 
are listed in within xorg.conf . On the line Modes      "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" make sure that the resolutions that come further to the 
right are not larger than the ones on the left. You may also want to remove 
resolutions you will absolutely never use. 

> "Then my screen actually lined up correctly at the right resolution"
If the resolution was wrong out of the box (with the open source drivers) then 
that would be an ideal candidate for a bug of its own. The misalignment is down 
to the open source drivers probing monitors differently to the binary 
linux/windows nvidia drivers. Assuming your monitor is connected via an analog 
cable you can fix it by getting the monitor to auto adjust.

> "I tried to install Java and it broke all sorts of things rendering the 
> operating system unusable"
That's awful! Installing java should never do that. Assuming you installed it 
from the Ubuntu repositories (and the problem is reproducible) you should 
definitely file a bug on that. Having to reinstall to recover just makes the 
problem doubly bad.

> "But my applications black out all the time"
You might want to take a look at Bug #96473 .

> "I feel like I've stretched myself for this OS"
That's the way it goes I'm afraid. I've noticed things tend to work best for 
those who use them the most but I'm not for people torturing themselves trying 
to get stuff going under Linux. If it's that bad I suggest staying with WIndows 
for now and perhaps retrying a new live cd in six months time?

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[nvidia-glx-new] Kubuntu Login "Slides Around the Screen" at 1280x1024 with 
NVIDIA GeForce 6150
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109199
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