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put the cd in the drive and restart the computer. hit f12 and then select boot from cd rom ide device. ubuntu will load. once you get to the desktop. click on the install icon. follow the instructions for city time zone and so on. then when you get to the part about partitioning select manual. then you will want to resize you hard drive. click resize and move the slider from the back end so that you have about 20 gigs. then you need to create a partition. click new and make the size 19 out of the 20 gigs. then select ext3 as the file system. then create another partition and use the rest of the space, select linux swap for the file system. now hit finish and it should write the changes to the drive. now mount points. in the box next to the 19 gig partition select "/" as the mount point. then next to the swap partition select "swap", then next to you windows partition you can write your own. put something like "/windows". that will create a folder in your root filesystem that you can click and see all your windows files. now just click finish. then i think it will ask about grub just click ok . it should go through the installation wich will take a while. after it is done it will ask if you want to use live cd or reboot. select reboot and take the cd out. now you will be at the grub menu. just select ubuntu and it will load.
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