This is what is happening:
http://picasaweb.google.com/quartzsite.gen/UbuntuProblems#

No I'm not 64 bit. I have run chkdsk hoping that will do a clean 
shutdown. Yes I got the same result with the liveCD & wubi, but it looks 
like the liveCD just launches Wubi when you install from windows.

I do run norton goback and it kicks in before I get the option to boot 
in Unbutu, I don't know if that might cause some problems. I also have a 
dead DVD burner in my computer & either a dead wireless card or 
corrupted driver. I don't know if that could be the problem.

Thanks everyone!!!
Dennis

plug-discuss-request@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote:
>   
> Dennis, I have done a number of regular and wubi installs.  Your
> hardware would not seem to be a problem here.  I do not know if
> anything in XP SP3 is an issue.  Especially I do not know if your SP3
> is causing problems because of the AMD processor but some do.  Also I
> would ask if you are running a 64-bit version of XP? Or a 64 bit
> version of ubuntu.
>
> One thing to be clear on is that you do not initiate a wubi install by
> rebooting.  You load the CD while running windows and (assuming
> autorun is on) a window will pop up with a menu.  The second item is
> to install ubuntu within windows.  That is probably what you used to
> try the wubi install, but please verify that.
>
> Once you make your choices in the dialog box, wubi will create the
> files needed within the Windows file system (probably NTFS) and adjust
> the Windows boot.ini (for XP) to have a menu which includes both
> ubuntu and windows.  Ubuntu is not yet installed, but the wubi
> structure is.  It will request a reboot which (assuming you choose
> ubuntu from that menu) will boot into the wubi system which will run
> the ubuntu install from the image it made previously.
>
> I was also not clear whether you got precisely the same result during
> a LiveCD install from booting from the CD as you got during the wubi
> install from within windows.