By all means, Ubuntu Linux and Canonical Ltd. have made a spectacular arrival on the Linux scene lately. The combination is like a dream come true for many, many Linux aficionados: tightly selected bleeding edge packages to focus the distribution on a single CD, corporate backing, 18 month support, that all sounds like a formidable package.
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The command: tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 <partition>
should eliminate the automatic fsck. Debian sets it to check every 30 times an ext3 partition is mounted. A reiserfs partition never gets checked.