Installing Drupal

Hi folks

Still finding my way around here so forgive (and correct) me if I haven't yet found the forum for dumb-ass newbies asking the most basic of questions.

Hopefully I won't need too much as I'm finding Drupal excellent, but one area I'm struggling with is basic page editing and site structure. For example I'd like my home page to just be a static web page that I can edit, but at the moment it lists all blogs and other posts. And how can I organise the main site menu structure to then position these around?

I just put all the files to my host. when i brower my address: http://www.guirong.net I got following error message.
any one can give some help?

Warning: main(includes/conf.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in E:\public_html\guests\ja082800023104\home\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 452

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'includes/conf.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in E:\public_html\guests\ja082800023104\home\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 452

Warning: main(includes/database.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in E:\public_html\guests\ja082800023104\home\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 453

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'includes/database.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in E:\public_html\guests\ja082800023104\home\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 453

Warning: main(includes/session.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in E:\public_html\guests\ja082800023104\home\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 454

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'includes/session.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in E:\public_html\guests\ja082800023104\home\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 454

Warning: main(includes/module.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in E:\public_html\guests\ja082800023104\home\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 455

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'includes/module.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in E:\public_html\guests\ja082800023104\home\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 455

Hi folks

Non-technical person new to Drupal and enjoying it a lot, especially the ability for non-technical people to customise the site. However this ability doesn't seem universal across all of the functions so I'm wondering the best way to plug these gaps.

For example, I'd like to use my Drupal within the context of social networking (of course) and thus the user profile section is key to this. I'd like users to have a simple ability to create and maintain their profile, ie photos, work stuff, personal stuff etc.

Hi all:

This is one of my first attempts to get a CMS system installed on Mac OS X Server, (I'm fairly new to this level of administration too).

I believe I had installed the latest release of Drupal correctly, but when I go to the main page I get the error:

Hi all,

Totally new to Drupal and trying to get an installation going.

Everything installed OK. Got drupal database created and loaded in Postgres. I saw there was a postgres update at http://drupal.org/node/10622 so installed that.

When I hit my site at http://127.0.0.1/drupal-4.5.0/index.php, i get the following:

i use drupal 4.5.0 and i install email this page module. everything is ok but i want to use email this page module by clicking on it it shoes me 500 internal server error message. I don't think i misconfigureted my server how can i solve the problem?