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David,
My concern with your above suggestion is that it does not actually share the space; it divides it. I have absolutely no data to back this up, so take it with a grain of salt, but users might then be surprised when they find that Windows now has half the space it previously had and there's no way to access the Ubuntu files from Windows.
What are your thoughts on the following slight modification to your suggestion: "Install Ubuntu 9.10 alongside existing installations, choosing between them when I start my computer."
On a side note, I would really love to clean up the entire partitioning interface. This kind of bug shows that we've patched the original design along the way, adding bits of helpful information as they became available, and it looks quite sloppy. I would rather we start with that information and design a simple, but informative, interface.