Belkin is the Devil.

5:50 am, nearly 9 hours after this project began....Windows is working smoothly, still patching and updating shit...but its working, Xubuntu's installed and rocking smoothly....but the snag, and of course there is one, apperently my network card manufacturer (Belkin) has opted NOT to create a linux driver.....so I can't use Xubuntu to go online with....and that was the whole reason to go with a dual-boot setup so I could eliminate windows except for gaming.....Blast You Belkin!....Thank god for hackers though, seems there may be a way to force it to run on the windows driver with a little bit of trickery...but we'll save that for another time.