Installing Drupal

I'm enjoying my very first taste of Drupal, trying out my brand-new installation. After some searching (and swearing) I found that the reason I couldn't upload files was that I needed to create a files/ directory and give it the right permissions. Now, I find that with permission 777, everything works fine. With 755 (or 775) I get the message:

The directory files is not writable.

in my administer >> settings view, and trying to upload files (for instance attaching a file in "Edit content") results in:

I've installed Drupal to my server, which allows me access to htaccess. I made a few small changes, like moving the setting.php to the main folder and removing sites/default but other than that its the same. Now when I enable Clean Urls it works but the page has no theme settings and when I change pages it seems just to keep adding /pagename/ to where ever I was like admin/settings/pagename/pagename/ etc.

When I used Fantastico to install it, it worked fine.
How do I fix it?

I -finally- got things more or less set up on my machine ( Apache, MySQL, Drupal,...).
Time to create the drupal database in MySQL, you'd think, right?
You'd wish....

For some reason, the database script provided with version 4.6.3 doesn't really seem to go together with the stuff I've installed so far.
The result :

ERROR 1005 (HY000) at line 439: Can't create table '.\drupal\profile_fields.frm' (errno: 121)

Hi guys:
This note is to let you know that the problem was solved. Now I have drupal up and running on my machine! I have already installed new modules and themes. Drupal is a Killer CMS!
The problem was that I opened the settings.php using frontpage and it added plenty of html tags before the php script, so the php code was kept inside the Body tags!
I donwloaded the settings.php again and opened it with notepad.! That was all
Thanks for your help!
Martin

hej

i am new to drupal - currently i am trying to work on a good solution to integrate images in my blog - i use acidfree for my gallery and in my blog i link to the images sometimes - but when i tried to set the style of the images in the style.css of my theme (box_grey) this conflicts with the look of the acidfree gallery

i wrote something like:

.content img{
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 5px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
float: left;
}

can somebody help me with that?

Hi all- I`ve got very weird problem with admin section on my site. It will be difficult to explain what`s wrong, so I will attach screen: http://img272.imageshack.us/img272/8894/problem2en.jpg - I`ve got about 19 times write "my blog"
I don`t know, that is writed on good forum section...
Sorry for language errors- english isn`t my native language.