No Dial-up Support in Ubuntu 8.10

When I upgraded my system from Ubuntu Studio 8.04 to Ubuntu Studio 8.10 I lost the ability to connect to the Internet via dial-up. How can I get the functionality of System->Administrator->Network back now that I have upgraded to Intrepid? It appears that I cannot revert back to the old system without completely re-installing UbuntuStudio 8.04 and loosing all of the additional programs and updates that have been installed on my system (aproximately 136 hours of download via dial-up).

I have installed each of the different distributions (LTS, Edbuntu, UbuntuStudio) of Intrepid Ibex 8.10 on a separate system and all of them prohibit the 40% of potential users in the United States and 60-80% world-wide without either DSL or Cable Modem capability from being able to access the Internet because the system does not support dial-up connectivity. Additionally, I have tried Upgrading from all previous distributions of Ubuntu 8.04 using each of the standard distributions and Alternate Installation DVD upgrade method for 8.10. All of them delet the Network tab from the System->Administrator menu removing the capability of setting up and using dial-up modems.

I was informed that the new Network Manager "feature" has replaced the two administrative network management functions in previous releases. Unfortunately, Network Manager does not allow the use or configuration of dial-up modems as one was able to do with System->Administrator->Network in previous edditions.