This has to do with the partition structure and bad handling of it. I wanted to 
see how the guided partitioning worked so I used it
My partitioning scheme was/is a bit, but only a bit, unusual.
I have sda1 to 4 where 1 is XP and sda3 extended
I let Ubiquty make a guided install in sda2 and let it do as it wanted - split 
the partition
This was done properly and sda3 increased to make room for a new partition, 
sda10 (used for install)
This gave this sequence of partitions (the extended not mentioned) sda1, sda2, 
sda5 =swap, sda10, sda6, sda7, sda8, sda9, no partition and sda4
The next attempt to install using guided creteated sda11 in the unpartitioned 
area
>From the live CD I deleted sda10 and resized the extended (sda3) back to it's 
>original size. After that I increased sda2 to fill the gap
Installing did work now
The grub installer can obviously not handle partitions numbered "out of order"
You could say this is not a bug but user error, but I would not agree. One 
would assume that the installer does not do things in one part that other parts 
of it cannot handle
Why the KDE edition, based on KUbuntu, fixed it I don't know, but it did 
install 
And oh how many different options I tested :)

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mobo with nforce4 and many partitions installing grub fails
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