Starting out Fresh with Sambutu

I couldn't get the Ubuntu 8.04 upgrade to load via Upgrade Manager.  I downloaded the alternate CD with the Upgrade on it and tried upgrading with that too. I got stuck at the same place.  I ended up rebooting and trying to do a clean install from the alternate CD but I kept getting errors. So, next I just install 7.10 again.  After I run all the updates, I click on the ugrade to 8.04 button in the upgrade manager.  This time it seems to be working just fine. I plugged Sambutu into a 19" LCD monitor so I wouldn' t have to deal with chopped off dialogue boxes during the install. Is that cheating?  I'm glad I made all these posts about the touchscreen. I'll be revisiting that after I get 8.04 running.