Installing Drupal

If you're admin, in my drupal install, you have the following links (under administer):
content / comments / account / configuration / etc. etc.

I would like to add a link to my phpMyAdmin installation in the confguration section, so that when you click on configuration, what opens up is:
themes / blocks / modules / filters / help / AND MY NEW LINK

In other words, I would like to add a link to the administer/configuration section. I would like that to be a link to the index.php my phpMyAdmin installation on the server. How do I do this?

how would i share a common database between these 2?

i dont particularly want to use the druapl forums, i would rather use my already existing phpbb forums

but i want both the drupal database (users) to be able to use their same accounts on phpbb without having to signup for an acct

how would i accomplish this, any help would be appreciated.

Hi everyone. This is my first post. I've lurked for a few days trying to pickup some tips on handling the problem mentioned above, but I'm still stuck. It seems this topic has been beaten to death but if you could indulge me, I'd appreciate it.

I installed Drupal 4.3.0 to a subdirectory off my root, so I could play with Drupal until I'm ready.
I setup the database and loaded the tables in PHPMyAdmin without problems. I named the database dru so the system assigns the name grammaat46_dru . I created a user with all priveleges named gm and was assigned grammaat46_gm.
I edited includes/conf.php from the file manager in cPanel. I edited the two lines requied....
$db_url = "mysql://grammaat46_gm:xxxxxxx@localhost/grammaat46_dru";
and
$base_url = "http://website.org/drupal";
Saved the file and opened a new browser window and went to website.org/drupal .
Netscape gives me a "403 Forbidden" "You don't have permission to access /drupal/index.php on this server."

One tip said that I was to click "create account" anyway because drupal always says this until the first account is setup. But I get no buttons from drupal, only the Netscape and Apache messages.

Another tip suggested checking the host minimum requirements but these all checked out.

Yet another tip suggested using website.org/drupal/index.php or website.org/drupal/?q=user/register etc. but these still give me the same error.

I have installed the Image module on Drupal 4.3.0 and things seem to be going alright, except for one problem. I have increased the maximum allowed filesize to 2000KB and 1280x1024 maximum resolution. However, anytime I try to attach files of a fairly large size (around 1000KB, but within the resolution restrictions) I get an error almost immediately after submitting that says "Document contains no data", and the image fails to upload.

I've successfully uploaded files about 500KB in size, but changing the maximum filesize doesn't seem to be helping.

I have installed Drupal basic created a new account and logged in.
Now how do I grant permission to the administrator?
How do I get in to any of the admin pages?
Thanks
Ron

i created a rather crude theme hack that displays a variation of my site's main theme when you request a particular page. i did this by creating a recursive copy of drupal, inside my root drupal directory and then modifying the theme characteristics in the nested drupal directory.

yes, i know it's ugly.