Thank you for your quick reply!

I did read the link, but it is a bit over my head, are they doing that in grub?

So my sd card comes up (in diskpartitioner) as sda2 but has 2 partitions on it called sdb1 and sdb2, I am not concerned about any information on it so would I use the command grubinstall /dev/sda2? Being that I have only 1 sd slot to boot my live ubuntu from and no cd/dvd Im not sure I can use the dd command from outside my running system.

My system is basically as follows:
eee 900ha (thus no optical drive)
160gb hd that is partitioned to dual boot (still have the xp on there even though I never use it) and partitioned:
Sda1:[/B] ntsf/windows
Sda2: sd card
sda3: says unknown, 40 mb?
sda4: extended:
I believe those are my 4 primary partitions?
under sda4 it shows: sda5: ntfs, 235mb, not sure what this is for?
sda6: I think this is my primary linux partition, it has 7.11gb used (will that fit on a 8gb sd card?
sda7: linux swap
sda8: fat 32: this is my partition that holds all my documents/music/videos/etc.

So after installing grub onto the sd card,
(a). which partitions do I need to copy
(b). Im not sure I understand the other steps needed here, do I need to do any formatting to the sd card?
(c,d,f): This is a cf command and is tarred, would it be easier to use the dd command instead here?
(e). Im not sure I understand this.

After using Linux for a year, I guess im still a NooB,

My goal here again: I just want a bootable backup of my eeebuntu os (I have a bootable copy of the original, just want one with all the tweaks I've made), I could settle for a dd backup that I could restore but it would be re-assuring to be able to boot into my system instead of the original version.

After some searching I found remastersys to create a custom .iso image, could I simply do that then boot into windows and use unetbootin to creat that on a flash drive? I think I will try that now

If this same result would be possible using the dd command it would be nice, the remastersys does allow to "reinstall" the system just like a live cd when booting from it which is even more ideal for a beginner like me.

Thanks in advance!