Installing Drupal

hi!.
I'm trying to understand why the traslation I'm doing, It doesn't work so well. I'm trying to change the content of the initial mail that you recieves when you registers in a drupal site (it is the user module in a t call), but It doesn't work. The problem is that I can't show the break line character (i've tried in the textfield to fill with \n and nothing happends :?). I've seen that the original mail arrives with the returns ok, what happends? ?¿? I don't know? I can't understand. Ah! And I can't show strange characters, like these: é, ¡
Any Idea?

Is there any way to force drupal to update it's module list?

I'm running 4.2, and clicking "save configuration" in the module administration doesn't seem to do it. The list never gets updated with the new module (taxonomy_dhtml).

I imagine this would take a considerable amount of additional web development, but I would like to know if Drupal would be the best foundation for a project like this or should I go with something more robust, any suggestions?

With Drupal can I make a site that has many children sites under that?

Lets say its a site for restaurants to house their own websites, broken down by state and city:
New York > Rochester > Olive Garden
Maryland > College Park > Lupos
Michigan > Detroit > Uno's

Hi,

I just stumbled onto this site/software (thanks slashdot!) and am trying to get my head around what exactly Drupal is and how you can use it? Besides the textbook description I'm not sure about something:

-is it a portal?
-is it a cms system?
-is it knowledge base system?
-is it a wikki?
-is it a combination of any/all of the above or can become one?

Well, I did it! I have Drupal installed and configured (for the most part) on my site. PSYCHE!!!

I have a couple of minor issues, well, not issues, just little quirks I want to work out -- mainly with the layout in the forum area.

1-- I would like the fourum listing to have dark & light rows alternating like it does here on the forum & topics pages. I can't seem to figure that one out. Can someone tell me how to make the rows alternate dark & light. (I have dark & light defined and working on my "recent posts" page.)

Hello,
I'm trying to install drupal (win2kserver/apache2.0/php4.2.1/mysql3.2)
i extracted it, created the database, created the user, modified the config.php) I can connect to the database, when i go to the link:
http://www2.thenelsonfamilyXXXXXXX.net:85/drupal/index.php
it brings up the first page A-OK at this point.