Wubi - "Unrecoverable Error"

When installing Ubuntu 10.04 under Wubi on my ThinkPad T43, on the first reboot I got this message:

The installer encountered an unrecoverable error and will now reboot.

That was it. No error message, no way to continue.
After a reboot, the same message would pop back up again.

I saw one mention of a work-around here on page 2 of this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1467850

The fix was to hit Esc before the GUI loads and select "ACPI workarounds".

This appears to be fixed (on the T43) as of Ubuntu 10.04.1 and 10.10.