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(Get the code!)
Doris, thank you for the laugh. You are taking all of this in very graceful strides.
Yes this does help me a bit. It tells me that certain parts of Ubuntu are working properly, and narrows down the list of possible sources of problems.
As for the thumb drive, you are absolutely correct that you don't want to remove the thumb drive without "Ejecting" or "Unmounting" the device. This process makes sure that there are no files still open and keeps your files safe. On your desktop, you should see an icon with the name of the drive (in this case, "3BF8-0A57"). If you right-click that icon with your mouse, you should see a list of choices drop down. At/near the bottom of that list, you should see "Eject" (maybe "Unmount", maybe both).
Click on "Eject" and the icon should disappear if it happened successfully. At that point, it is safe to remove the thumb drive. If a message comes up saying that it could not eject, then that means that there is still something holding a file open on the device, and it has to be closed and the process repeated. In rare cases, it is possible that the computer can not seem to eject the device, then just wait until you shut the computer down normally, and then you can remove the thumb drive when the computer is off.
As for the "Mystery slot", I am guessing that it is your 3 1/4 inch floppy drive. These disks are rarely used anymore as they could only hold a tiny amount of data compared to CDs and thumb drives.
As for your original complaint about the CDs not registering, I am going to do a little checking to see what the problem is and get back to you tomorrow.