Hey thanks again for all your help. I've tried it again, this time with the hardy drivers, unfortunately I'm still getting errors when I try the sudo install.
I've pasted the terminal errors below in hope that someone may be able to suggest a solution:
(i first created a folder in "home" called "drivers" and dragged the extracted rar files into it)
pete@pete-laptop:~/drivers$ sudo sh ./install
[sudo] password for pete:
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211_crypt_ccmp_rtl (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp-rtl.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211_crypt_wep_rtl (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211_crypt_wep-rtl.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211_crypt_tkip_rtl (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211_crypt_tkip-rtl.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211_rtl (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ieee80211-rtl.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error inserting r8180 (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/r8180.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
pete@pete-laptop:~/drivers$
Just to say, I am using the latest version of wubi to install ubuntu, I don't see why that should matter, but I thought I'd better say.