I am guessing "Ubuntu 7.0
4" as there is no month zero this year (AFAIK).
The alternate partition tools should be fine ... use partition magic on the Vista partition. Note, the minimum for any vista is 15GiB with 20GiB recc'd for Home Basic and 40GiB for the others. Many users find it useful to create a 4GiB FAT32 partition as well, which Vista knows about (it gets a windows drive letter.) Linux partitions should not receive a drive letter in windows.
But first, read:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ad.php?t=75654
I wouldn't bet on being able to resize the linux partition non destructively since you will be chopping off it's head. Be prepared to reinstall there. Vista should be OK... it's gaining at the tail.