[xubuntu-users] Need Help Finishing 9.04 Installation

[Robin]

I am a newbie myself, but I found that I could not play mp3s until I had 
installed the xubuntu-restricted extras package. Look here 
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu) for some advice on getting 
multimedia stuff to work.

I am curious about why you chose 9.04 when 9.10 is available and may 
offer better support (it solved a graphics problem I had given up on 
9.04). Mine came with most of the networking and shutdown stuff already 
in the toolbar. I have heard that the network manager called "wicd" 
works much better with most wireless connections than the default does. 
It is in the repositories and easily installed using Synaptic Package 
Manager.

Omygosh... a newbie giving advice! 8-)

-Robin