Installing Drupal

If I try and save my user information on my installation of Drupal PHP crashes (Application error) - this is a new install and I'm logged on as the administrator of the Drupal site

I am getting the error message:

warning: MS SQL: Bad row offset in C:\PHP\pear\DB\mssql.php on line 169.

This is a new installation and as far as I know, everything is configured properly. Anyone got any ideas?

I'm looking to modify the message_access function to something a bit more friendlier than "You are not authorized to access this page."

Where is this function? I've been looking all over my drupal installation for it. Thanks!

It has been suggested elsewhere in another thread that all you need to do to move Drupal from one directory to another is to change the $base_url in the conf.php file. I found out this is not the case. I got errors. I got errors both when I moved drupal's file structure into the new directory and when I left the files in the old directory.

So what's the proper way to move Drupal? Thanks.

Can i use image.module only for uploading image?
When i install it on my localhost nothing was changed
and did step by step its instructions (without downloading ImageMagick)- nothing happens:( Am i must download ImageMagick immediatly? And how i`ll use it on my real site - uploading it by ftp to my hosting?
And why it is not so easy???! Whom this list of features are needed, like crop-drop-pop-size-background-flip?
Arghhh
p.s. sorry:)

Hello.
I recently contacted my provider to ask why at times, my site is at a crawl - here is their response, is there anyway to achieve what they are saying? Would Drupal be more effective in this manner, than PHPnuke?

Here was my host's response - and i hope you can tell me whether Drupal would be any "better". Thanks in advance.

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Hi,
 
 There would be little point in moving you to another server. Daffy is very lightly loaded, and the fact that it has mod_ssl compiled into it, is largely irrelevant as it does not actually have any SSL sites on it.
 
 However, as I said to you on the forum, the primary reason for any speed issues is likely to be a result of database queries. Whilst certainly the MySQL server is usually quite busy, it is not slow to the point that it would affect your site normally. The problem is mostly the content management system you are using.
 
 Most content management systems are completely overblown. The one you are currently using, you currently have 91 tables in your database. This is generally unnecessary. I did a trace on the MySQL server, and just going to your front page results in 74 queries to the database server. This will happen every time anyone looks at your page. Clicking on the 'forums' link on the front page generates 43 queries. Browsing the forums results in about 40 queries per page. Even clicking on the FAQ page, which just brings up some FAQ subcategories, results on 29 queries.