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I would like to amend my comment to add that I have now run badblocks to scan each sector in each partition of my hard drive. badblocks does not report a single bad sector. Additionally, since my machine is a dual boot, I scanned my drive with Windows XP Pro SP3 chkdsk, specifically set to look for bad sectors, and none were reported.
This leads me to conclude, as have others on this page and on other Ubuntu forums online, that this is a bug with Palimpsest.
I will also note that while I have had these problems with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) on my Dell Mini 10v with the Hitachi MH160HI hard drive (reported above), I have not had any issues of this kind with Karmic on my three-year-old Dell Inspiron 1420 with a Toshiba MK1637GSK hard drive - it reports zero bad sectors.