Well, bit the bullet, and upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 yesterday..
So far, so good. It looks like this has been primarily a bug fix release, and the speed has increased ten fold from what i’ve noticed. I will post more after i get done with my research paper.
As a side note: As soon as 10.04 LTS becomes available for production servers, Veritas will be getting an Upgrade. If the Veritas upgrade goes smoothly, i will also then upgrade Mrsaturn.