Installing Drupal

Im using version Drupal 4.2 with "filestore.module,v 1.21.2.1 2003/08/11 22:51:59 gordon" and would like to view PDF's when I click the download button. I can download them and view them but I cant view them inline. Anyone know the secret?

Well, I'm new to Drupal, and thus far I am terribly pleased. I've looked at, no joke, over 100 CMS/portal apps in the last few months trying to find a good solution for a couple of different sites. Drupal will nearly serve most of these straight out of the box, and I believe it will serve for all the sites if I continue to find information as easy to obtain as I have so far. With luck, I'll be able to figure out how to do a few custom modules for some of the sites. Most everything here is refreshingly easy to figure out.

I've got questions about two of the modules, however. I'm using 4.2.0, and the corresponding module releases.

The forum_link module appears on the surface to be the ideal solution to one issue I'm having, which is that I'd like to direct all discussion to the forums, rather than comments attached to a given node. For example, if I post an event, all discussion regarding that event should be in the forum, in a thread that is tied to that event. While the forum_link module does add a "discuss" link at the bottom of an event, it leads only to a form for adding a new post to the forum. If someone has already done this, the next person who comes along is not taken to the same thread created by the first, but simply to the same form to add yet another thread to the forum. This would lead not do discussion, but simply to a bunch of single posts to the forum, not tied together in any way. Is this indeed how it is supposed to be working, or have I got something mis-configured? If this degree of functionality is not included in this mod, is there something I can do to add it? (I would need hand-holding on this, I'm afraid.)

Are there currently any modules that allow Users to insert an image from their computer into a story while creating it?

This would be a rather important and useful tool, I would think.

i want install drupal into my home directory which is pointed to by virtual host. what do i need to do to make it work. im getting include_path errors saying my include path is set to /var/www.

I have tried updating 4.2 to CVS on a windows localhost. When I run update.php, I get the following error message:

user error: Table 'drupal.sessions' doesn't exist
query: SELECT u.*, s.*, r.name AS role FROM users u INNER JOIN role r ON u.rid = r.rid INNER JOIN sessions s ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.sid = '18d99cf3d0990324c74760761d4df4ef' AND u.status < 3 LIMIT 0, 1 in h:\www\drupal\includes\database.mysql.inc on line 90.

Can someone tell me why? Thanks.

Using taxonomy I created a new box with my site sections. How can I add a blog counter for each section?

(pe):
Music (32)
Movies (12)
Internet (4)

Thanks!