Installing Drupal

Is there an easy way to create a series of flat (static) html pages as a library of content that is access restricted to a particular class of user in Drupal?

I'm looking at using Drupal for an online community which has a class that meets often. I want an instructors area with content for the classes that only they can see and an area for students with html content as well. I can't see if there is an easy way to do that in Drupal.

I'm not sure if this is a bug in drupal or my webhost, but drupal has worked before until recently after my webhost switched data centers. The problem is, after configuring my user and database...adding the user to the database...unpacking my database tables...and configuring the conf.php. When I try to create and admin account, it creates an account called "n" and a password 4 letters shorter than what I originally typed.

Hi.

Title says it all.
I have changed it in node.module and created/edited some nodes.
Is there any reason for the restriction and for that my system having 128 car long title will go up in flames when i call a certain function i havent tried yet?

Can anyone direct me to a function and feature comaprison between the most popular content management systems? Particularly stability and maturity? Perhaps a comparison between available blocks and nodes too? Where could I learn more about their architectures and relative merits?.. without having to download, install and test each one...

I have a integrated chat room that I get for free from my hosting provider. To enter it, you put in your "nickname" in a box and hit enter. I understand that when logged in the site dynamically puts your "login" name on the upper most block to the right. Is there a tag for this that I can just put into the code for the block? My purpose is that the user will just hit "enter" and go into the chatroom using the name they are logged into the site with and submit content with...

I tried installing the pager Refer module...
Install and 'activated' successfully.
When I try the 'Refer this page' link, my browser generates this URL :
http://www.trematon.com/drupal/submit.php?mod=refer

Which results in a 404 Not Found Error :

/drupal/submit.php was not found on this server.

Would it be a wise move to try and extract this file from the Drupal 3.0.0 bundle for use with my Drupal 4.0.0 ??

Or should I abandon this module?