Actually 10.04 is EOL as well. Use 12.04 for an LTS.
On a laptop that old installing regular Ubuntu is going to be agonizingly slow. Do give Lubuntu...
You probably didn't check the box to install third-party media plugins at installation. Depending what media player you're using it will give you the...
As a first step you should do a fresh install of one of the recent Buntus as a) 8.04 does not receive security updates any more and b) the bug might...