qtparted broken - kubuntu 6.10 install

[William F. Dudley Jr.]

No Implementation: Partition 3 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries.  This is 
still unsupported.
A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer to the web site of parted 
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more informations of what 
could be useful for bug submitting!  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing at least the version (1.7.1) and the following 
message:  Assertion (disk != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1319 in function 
ped_disk_next_partition() failed.

Note:
disk has no partitions.  Refurb WDC 250.1 GB WDC WD2500LB-55EDA0

complaint about "Partition 3" above implies that qtparted is taking
serious drugs.

uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 18:45:35 UTC 2006 i686 
GNU/Linux

This effectively makes it completely impossible to install kubuntu on
this disk drive.

Thanks, and I know I'm wasting my time,
Bill Dudley