Thanks for the reply jnetman1.
I actually saw that the fix on the link and it somewhat works. The screen is pretty distorted in the sense that everything is enlarged. It seems to be set at 800X600 and the screen is pretty zoomed in and I can see the full menu bar at the bottom. I've tried to change the screen settings and there are no other viewing choices.
What I did notice when I let it boot up normally, I get no splash screen and when it gets to the desktop, you see it for a split second and then it goes black/blank. In the upper left part it says Ubermix Launcher, I can see the multi window icon, internet icon, sound icon, time and power/setting icon button. I can access the setting window through the upper task bar. When I click on the video settings to see info. on the video card, it shows up as unknown. I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not.
I'm not sure if I should just give up and install ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04 or Lubuntu. The computer is an old Dell GX240 with 1 gig of RAM.