Installing Drupal

I'm a drupal newbie, and I'm having trouble getting apache to read the drupal .htaccess file.

I've tried both Apache 2.0.43 and 1.3.26 running with PHP4.2.3 on a Win2K system.

I suspect the issue is how to properly configure "AllowOverride" within Apache's httpd.conf file. I've tried varients of "AllowOverride All" stuffed inside Drupal's <VirtualHost> entry without success.

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    DocumentRoot "c:/www-projects/drupal-4.1.0/"
    ServerName drupal41.mydomain.com
<VirtualHost>

I'm translating drupal to Spanish. Among other things, I've found some strings that should be transtlated but I couldn't find them through locale administration interface, nor using a direct mysql query into my drupal's database neither.

Examples are: "user blogs" (please, note that's NOT "User blogs" beginning with caps), "Enabled" and "Title".

While I've not found none "user blogs" string, I've found some "Enabled" and "Title" strings, I've translated them but none seems to be the ones used in some submission forms because they continue using original strings.

Ok, I'm officially giving up on 4.1RC.

I'm running Postgres and I'm experiencing MAJOR DATABASE PROBLEM, so I have two questions:

1) Will older Drupal versions work with PostgreSQL?

2) Has anyone had any luck getting 4.1RC running with Postgres?

3) Where in Drupal is the SQL assembled? I haven't been able to make any significant changes...

Thank you.

Can someone plz tell me how to install Drupal with PHPMyAdmin on a normal webhost (with MySQL & PHP offcource).......
I searched trough the whole site, but nowhere I can find the SQL table's I have to create using PHPmyadmin :S......

Tnx & Grtz ViTruS (ViTruS1@mail.com)

Forgive me for my lack of knowledge of PHP, I just started running a site this morning I noticed that the release candidate supports the use of avatars, but that other than the profile page they aren't really used at all. What I'd like to do is replace the image where the "drop" image appears using the marvin theme (the black one at the head of every news posting) to be the avatar of whomever had the story posted. Is this possible, and if so, could anyone point me toward a means of implementing it? Any help would be greatly appreciated

I'm having a bit of trouble with the latest release candidate..apparently the who's online block never seems to know whether or not a person's online or not. I don't really know a whole lot about PHP so I'm not able to fix it myself :> Is there something I've probably forgotten to enable, or would this be considered a bug?