Ok… I’m chronicling my re-install effrorts because it isn’t going as smoothly as I would want it to.

9:59: Re-install attempt number two is, so far, going well after the first attempt failed. For some reason, the partitioner couldn’t install the OS after it changed the partitions. A reboot seemed to help.

10:17: HD install complete.  Now I’m re-installing the fglrx drivers so I can run xorg.