I have a cd with ubuntu on it.
I leave it in the cd drive.
Turn off and turn on
boot options
picked cd drive first
it "skips" the cd and loads windows.

Chances are you didn't burn the disc right. In Windows, go to My Computer and click on the CD icon that pops up. Do you see one .iso file or do you see a lot of different files and folders?

The iso, and an autorun folder and an .ini file I believe.

So it wasn't burned right. You need to burn the ISO to a disc using something like ISO Recorder which will actually copy the data in the ISO file onto the disc. ISOs are image files and are a very useful method for keeping things together in an easily burnable format when they're needed by a certain device (ie. a PS2) or when there's a special bit of code that makes the CD bootable (ie. *nix installation media). By burning the ISO itself you've copied the image file itself onto the disc and not the actual data.

I'll just have to find an alternative way to install ubuntu.

...I don't want to...

lol...you can buy the cd and support the team >.>..

NO! >=(

I always try to find a free alternative, whether its pirated or not. =\

How do you do it properly then?

And this is my first post using ubuntu.

You guys need to tell me things that you can do on ubuntu now.

I`ve heard about apps, how do you get and use them?

Applications > Add/Remove software is a start. Make sure that you check the box to show third party software (or something along those lines).

My harddrive got erased from me trying to do something with gpartitioner.

I had to install windows again.

Oh well.

Hackingtosh here I come!!

If you had a hard time working with Ubuntu, you will have no luck with a Hackintosh, to be honest. You gotta have the exact kinda hardware for the right disk. I haven't been able to get one running yet.