That sounds like a good plan. I appreciate the detailed
instructions beyond "use gparted" which is what I expected. Good job.

I've copied and pasted and will give it a go in the next couple of days when I
get some time.

I'm also going to continue to try to install Lubuntu 12.04 on the old laptop.
That distro looks like the way I'd like to go with my main machine, now running
Ubuntu 9.10.