Installing Drupal

Hi. Am trying to install image.module on site running current CVS Head. I think I have the permissions set correctly for users and for the directories, but am having these problems:

1) get this error referrering to the links() function in the theme:

warning: implode(): Bad arguments. in /home/spoons/public_html/network/themes/1/1.theme on line 246.

I have the usual links theme there:

function links($links, $delimiter = " · ") {
return implode($delimiter, $links);
}

just installed drupal on my localhost...
load up the index.php...
all i see is this:
"Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page."

click anylink will throw me back to directory listings...

did a search on drupal already...but still the same...
things i did:

mysql
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1. GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO admin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '123';
- return with ok
2. flush privileges;
- return with ok

Trying to use drupal on a free hosting/webspace/mysql service called polarhome.com (recommended). I'm not sure if it possible to run drupal on my space though. Problem is that drupal's .htaccess file is not permitted to overide any of the php directives needed for configuration. Probably prevented my httpd.conf. This includes the 3 most important ones: magic_quotes_gpc, session.save_handler, and session.cache_limiter. Apparently I can have drupal set directive in its scripts itself with the ini_set() function.

Hello :

It seems that all of a sudden, drupal is giving notices about serialize() :

Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize.html]: Error at offset 0 of 4 bytes in path\to\common.inc on line 175

The only thing I did before this notice started showing up was add the filestore.module to the modules directory, and inserted the sql file into the database. I haven't activated the module. The only other thing I can think of is that this error started when I connected my box to the internet (although I can't be positive about that). I am using localhost as my testing server.

System details are :

Drupal : 4.2
PHP    : 4.3.3
Apache : 2.0.47
MySQL  : 4.0.14-nt
OS     : Windows XP Professional

Any ideas on how to fix this? I know I can turn off notice reporting, but I'd rather find out why this is happening.

I know this problem has been around on the forums but none of the suggested solutions has worked for me. I have a drupal installation working perfectly on another remote host, but this time round (same provider but a different server) I just get the first page with an access denied message and none of the links working. Create new account merely returns the same no authorization to access page message. Can anyone help?

I'm currently running a website that revolves around pictures and reports of certain events. I didn't expect the kind of succes it has and it has therefor grown to large to be maintained by hand. However I don't know a thing about php and am kinda stuck there. Then a friend pointed me to Drupal. What I'm looking for is something where I can have users contribute reports that appear on the site after I ok'd them.