Installing Drupal

I am looking for a theme that supports blocks on both sides. Could someone suggest one to me.

Thanks

When trying to install the tables (version 4.1), I get the following error (there seems to be something wrong with the sql file):
SQL-query :

* - * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - * - * - CREATE TABLE access(

aid tinyint( 10 ) NOT NULL auto_increment,
mask varchar( 255 ) NOT NULL default '',
type varchar( 255 ) NOT NULL default '',
status tinyint( 2 ) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY ( aid ) ,
UNIQUE KEY mask( mask )
) TYPE = MyISAM

So I finally worked out some issues I had setting up a second mySQL database with my hosting service, and created the initial database for my site.

In general, my preferred method of working is to set up a local copy of apache, install the software and misc. add-ons, and then export a copy of the database, which I then import into the database on the server.

After doing this, when I tried to log in on the hosted copy, the page refreshed and showed only a portion of the username I'd typed, as well as a shorter password, and the message "I don't recognize that user."

After clearing the auto-complete cache in Explorer and simply typing each field out by hand with the same result, I reverted to a "clean" copy of the database with no user info.

The new account was created without incident; I chose the user name "Middle Brother", gave it my email address (webmaster@atlasisshrugging.org), and it spat back out "barnerd" as a password. When I tried to log in again, however, the same thing happened.

The text fields showed "le Brother" and my password was something like "***". While I know very little about mySQL, I did check the new database and sure enough, the user name had been stored as "le Brother", my email address was "aster@atlasisshrugging.org", etc.

I don't have a lot of work invested into the setup and so I'm not going to lose anything if I start over from scratch, which is what I plan to do next.

But I'm worried that I'll run into the same problem. Does anyone have any idea what might cause this or how to fix it?

I just installed Drupal. Most stuff seems to be working - I can add new stories, comments, etc. But on certain updates involved in that process, I get a database error like those below.

I ran the GRANT command on the drupal database in MySql. Is there some other part of MySql that I need to grant access to the drupal user for? Like systems tables? Thanks.

query: LOCK TABLES sequences WRITE in c:htdocsp0drupalincludesdatabase.mysql.inc on line 69

Or

I want to be able to view a page without rendering the blocks. My user story is that I want to display the archive module and "turn off" the blocks for that display. I'd be happy with creating an archive.php page in / and change some parameters or something there.

Any recommended approaches to this problem? I don't want to go hacking every single theme, I'd rather keep it within archive_page().