Installing Ubuntu

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Hello, seems this list gets quite a few Ubuntu questions. Hopefully  
it's OK if I toss out one more. Hopefully it's quick with a simple  
solution. :)

I decided to wipe my older Ubuntu install and try installing from the  
live CD. For some reason, GDM seems to start but I'm not getting the  
usual login sound, and I can see enough to note that the screen has  
various shades of blue, which doesn't jive with my experiences from  
before. :)

I've burned and booted the live CD, gotten Orca running and played  
with a few applications. Things seem to work. Clicking the  
installation icon on the desktop seems to kill speech, however. I see  
that another window has opened, but it doesn't speak and I can't seem  
to get Orca to offer any indications of focus change. Sorta reminds  
me of the behavior when I'd run some graphical application requiring  
sudo.

Any idea as to what might be happening? I've looked at the forum, but  
all indications seem to point to simply clicking "install." This is  
with a current live CD as of late last night/early this morning. I've  
tried both running orca manually, and via the "press F5, then 3"  
method, thinking that perhaps this performed additional configuration  
steps which I'd missed.

Thanks.