Drupal 6.x

I am a new subscriber to Start Logic, and while I have installed Drupal a few times previously, I ran into some unexpected problems.

There may be some useful info here about troubleshooting installations, and possibly suggested inclusions into future installation scripts.

Problems first appeared after I set up the database in phpMyAdmin, and tried to run the installation script in the browser (Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12) - although none of the problems were browser related.

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I'm new to Drupal and have been trying to figure out how to customize search results. I've found a few postings on it, but I'm not sure they are current for 6.1. It's also quite possible that since I'm new to all of this that I'm just not doing it right. So with that said...

Is there a way to restrict certain usernames from being created without admin intervention.

What I'd like to do is create a list of usernames, this could be called 'unsuitable or unavailable'. When a user attempts to register, Drupal first checks against this list, if in the list the user is advised as per normal that that username is not available. If the name isn't in the list the validation proceeds as per normal.

I don't want to create dummy account names simply to prevent those names from being registered.

hey, just put this up: http://drupal.org/node/235121

wondering if anybody has some time to read it and let me know if there's too much crap or anything missing (it's LONG, but detailed - targeted at a VERY new user who needs lots and lots of handholding and step by step details)

I'm looking at implementing a site with the following node types:

• person
• department
• project
• publication

Relationships need to be established between most of these - like in a person listing, you should be able to see/edit the departments he belongs to, the projects he's working on and publications that include his name as an author. Similarly, a department listing should be able to show the people in the department, the projects in that department, and the related to that department (which may be different to the total publications list of the people in the department. The same is true of projects, and of publications.

Then in addition, I'd like to be able to tag posts to belong to a project, and implicitly a person via authorship. (I'm thinking the NAT module may help out here.)