You might want to give a more up to date version of Ubuntu a try. 7.04 Feisty Fawn had NTFS read access right out of the box, and setting up write access wasn't exactly rocket surgery. 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has NTFS read/write by default.Windows. I'd like to give Linux a try but It (Ubuntu and Pardus) Can't see my ntfs partitioning at all. (Mac is not an option for me)
All 7 of the PC's in this house run some form of Windows XP.