Installing Drupal

anybody see this? i was trying to send personalized messages from within my site to a handful of users and got '3 users within an hour' warning...i'd like to disable this for admin, but make sure that no other users can exceed the 3 user rule...

has anybody else done this already?
thanks in advance!

"Compilation failed: this version of PCRE is not compiled with PC"

...shows up in droves on the admin logs...any ideas?

Hello I am a noobie, I completed the 2nd step of the installation , I ran the flush privileges command, then exited from SQL, now when I am trying to log into mysql I get the following error:

Cannot establish connection to database, giving up.
MySQL error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I am able to log in to mysql like this:

mysql -u mysql

I have installed a fresh version Drupal 4.6.3 but its themes cannot show up at all. I tried setting a with the admin tool administer->themes, but there are no themes listed on this page.

I have a check for my Drupal site. There are the following theme objects:

drupal/themes/bluemarine folder
drupal/themes/chameleon folder
drupal/themes/pushbutton folder
drupal/themes/engines/xtemplate folder

Anyone has a solution for fixing this problem? Thanks!

okay, got a basic question and discussion to start here regarding site speed running the latest drupal release...i'm running drupal on a vps, mysql 4.1.11 with php 4.3.10 and apache 1.3.33...and very few regular cron jobs, not an unusually high number of modules either, but the site continues to feel slow - taking seconds to load basic pages, sometimes what feels like forever to do stuff like 'post a forum' and so on...

there are no subscriptions modules enabled (that was a huge issue before, required a massive send before posting, so turned it off)....

even with a mysql reset, the site eventually feels sluggish again - and remember, this is a vps...running on a: P4 dual 2.6 with 2gigs RAM...

any ideas? considering mmturck or zend - but i'm not sure what, if anything, these will do (e.g. does zend only work for zend encoded php, or could it work for anything as a 'free download'?)....php5 would require some apache edits to not call up 4.0 stuff...but that also doesn't seem like a breakthrough...

is there something else, something more basic or structural within drupal's latest release that i am completely not getting?

ideas:
1 - mysql (my-isamchk, or mysql check etc) - will go through dbase, repair and id errors, etc...organize and sort if possible to make it all quicker...
2 - zend - or mmturck's most recent iteration as 'eaccelerator' - again, not sure what it will mean...

what do this mean?:
Notice: Undefined index: pass in d:\***\includes\database.mysql.inc on line 31
session_start ();
information of line 31:
$connection = mysql_connect($url['host'], $url['user'],

$url['pass'], TRUE) or die(mysql_error());