Installing Drupal

>Is there an easy way to see the php code used by any of the blocks that are part of the core Drupal code? I'd like to create a new Block ("Announcements") that draws a hyperlinked list of the 5 most recent stories from a particular taxonomy item. I imagine this would be very similar to the "New forum topics" functionality in the Drupal "Forum topics" block. But since the Drupal admin doesn't provide an "edit" link for the core blocks, I'm not sure where to fish out this php code.

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for life.

Hello!
I have two little questions:
1.) Is there a way to change the order of posts/pages? For example: I create a new static page and it is not ordered at the top of the page but below all other posts.
2.) I defined a primary link that links to a taxomony topic and after I clicked on this link it does not change the content in a defined block. Is it possible that a taxomony menu changes content sensitivly to the topic I have selected with the primary link?
Maybe there is some module for this problem?!
Thanks for your answers!

Apologies for this being slightly off-topic, but this is driving me nuts!

I'm trying to do some basic prototyping with some php scripts to add a few new features to our site that can't wait until we eventually move to Drupal (yay!).

I've got a form that POSTs to a .php URL, and it fails with "The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /php/thanks.php."

I see people asking this problem all over the web, with very few answers.

Is someone mantaining book.module? I sent a bug report two days ago.

Hi,

Where are the controls for the ping and syndication modules? - I have them both enabled but don't seem to see any controls for them?

Much thanks...

I saw a Profile module on the 'Downloads' a few days/weeks ago, but I can't seem to find it, and I'm really looking for a way to extend the profile information for my Drupal 4.1.0 site. Any ideas? If not, is it possible to manually add these fields to the system?

Thanks,
Mike