To Kernel, or not to kernel :-)

[stan]

I'm putting Kubuntu 6.10 on several machines over the weekend. Thes
machines will replace existing older Debian based workstations.

I have run in to an issue with my existing CD recorder scripts, that I
think I need to have IDE SCSI emulation avaialble to resolve.

Historically I have sometimes built custom jernels. But looking at all the
fixes I see coming from the Ubuntu repositories, I'm a little reluctant to
do this.

What's the Ubuntu way to do this? Is building custom kernels not the
prefered way? If I do build one, which should I build? Looking on
kernel,org, I see 2.6.19.1, but I also see that 2.6.18.6 has a newer
datestamp. 

-- 
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)