Installing Drupal

I'm attempting to create an intuitve novice-user friendly discussion system similar to Yahoo groups that provides email notification + the ability to see unread "posts".

I've been expirmenting with Drupal and a few other candidates (phpBB) but am unable to configure drupal to show unread posts.

Is there a module or configuration to that will show user's unread posts like Yahoo groups?

Thanks in advance,

any advice will be appreciated

Quentin Krengel
quentin@unixhowto.com

Is there an easy way to include the author's name (and perhaps also the date of composition) in the bulleted lists of book pages - for example, in a way similar to the tracker module, which has a neat tabled list of book page, author, and date (in CVS). It seems odd for a collaborative that you cannot immediately see who has contributed what and when.

I installed the updated import-module http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/modules/import/?cvsroot=contrib and followed all of the instructions the new import-mysql file imported fine and all modules where installed. I enabled the 2 new modules and tried to load some rss feeds and it appeared that they where not getting imported to the database. When I load the import page I get the following error.

When I log in as admin (User ID 1), and go to 'administer drupal', 'user management', 'user permissions' and get the page with a bunch of checkboxes, http://servername:8080/drupal/admin.php?mod=user&op=permission and click some to try to set permissions, and then click "Save permissions" button, the page refreshes, with all checkboxes unchecked.
Anyone know why this is, or has had it happen too?

Most other administration actions work perfectly.
I could log in as a user other than admin, but there's nothing available to do other than 'edit account' and 'logout', because the permissions I tried to set weren't saved.

This is reproducible in Opera 7.11, lynx 2.8.4rel.1, Mozilla 1.0.0, Netscape 4.77 for Linux, and in Opera 7.01 and IE 6.0.2800.1106IS for Windows.

In php.ini, I added
extension=pgsql.so
extension=xml.so

It's using drupal 4.1.0-9 the debian package, on debian testing, with postgresql.

Changes made from package install:

I added a new theme to the system, in 4.2.0, and it looks like once I did so, drupal could no longer display the themes part of the Administration section.

I tried dropping all of the theme data from the table, but that didn't make a difference.

Is there something I can do to make drupal reload the themes from the filesystem?

Does anyone know how to get the user name and display it on a block?

Also I am using the xtemplate, but the forms pages show no blue band in a table format.

Any ideas?
Chris