In the end I installed Ubuntu 9.10 using the alternate installer, first installing the "command line system", then installing the Ubuntu Desktop using tasksel, and in the end installing the NVIDIA drivers (nvida-glx, ...), and finally copying the xorg.conf from my working 9.04 system.
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