Installing Drupal

Hi,
I downloaded drupal 7.9 version and want to install this on my xampp with postgresql as database. Both xampp and postgresql are running fine separately. I also created a sample test php file to check whether I can connect postgreys db from php. And it worked. But When I run the install.php file from browser and provide the pg host , user, pass etc I got an error page. What can I do ? If you know please help.

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i got a theme with the slider installed. the slider has got 3 pictures, its working fine when i set it up but the next day, it just doessnt. the slider doessnt show the different slides/pictures, only the last one (banner.jpg). the only way to make it again running is when i go again structure/slider and chose the pictures AGAIN, even tho they are still in there and not deleted or something. after that, it works again - for several hours.

i tryed that also another computer with my installation, got the same problem there. can any1 help me ?

HTMl literate new Drupal user with a tall order of install problem seeks an experts advice!!
I have been trying for over a month to install Drupal 7 on BOTH a PC and a host server. I am using an one click out of the box template(theme) I purchased from a theme provider: Rocket Theme
#1 Here is what I did: Set up my data base on my host server and ftp my D7 package to my www folder on my host server. What is happening is I can see my Drupal theme as if it were a regular webpage. It looks good one problem though, I dont have any Drupal admin tools to modify my template. Its like the template is visible but somehow Drupal maybe did not install. I was advised to navigate to: mywebsite.com/admin and was told that would bring up the drupal admin. It does not work. I dont know what to do. Do I reinstall Drupal??

#2 I am trying to install Drupal7 on my windows PC running XP using the WAMP server. I set up my database and fixed the /localhost problem I had with the port. Its was working good. When I navigated to /localhost and launched the Drupal install, I got the first 2 steps completed and when I got to the Verify step the screen froze and I can not complete the setup process. I went to mySQL data base to check for error logs and found the following:

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in which file can i see/change the mysql server and user+pw ?

i want to move my drupal installation to another server where i have other username/pw etc

The Drupal installer was giving me the error about register_globals needing to be turned off so I took of Drupal's .htaccess files from my local install and added the line to do so. So I have this in Drupal's root directory.

.htaccess

Just installed DRUPAL 7.9 to learn about CMS... and it never asked me how to connect to an eMail server, so how is it going to be able to send eMails ? I can't find anything in the install dox or in the admin pages. Is there something I'm not understanding about how eMail works ? It is running on Ubuntu 11.10, Apache2, MySQL, PHP5, etc on my home network. Incidentally, is there a quick way to test out the eMail connection ?