Drupal 6.x

Hey everybody,

So I'm trying to decide the best CMS for my needs, and here's what I'm going to be doing:

I'm considering Drupal for a blog/FAQ/How-To site for a university office. I've downloaded and tested the program on my personal host and so on, and quite like it. The two immediate problem I see:

1. We currently do not have access to MySQL databases on the university network.

2. We do not particularly want it to be apparent that users are being shifted off of the university network to access these pages (otherwise I could just put it on my personal space, for example, and be done with it).

I would like to create a content type which splits a page content into sections and creates actions upon those sections. This would provide a way to structure a page of content when using sub-pages or a WYSIWYG editor is not an option. I think that this could be really useful.

I am wondering whether this is available as a module (I have looked, but can't see it, and you never know - I could have been looking in the wrong place!), or whether someone has created something similar.
I realize this is probably possible using cck fields and fieldgroup - but wonder whether it could be done in a less hackish/simpler way - perhaps with a custom module?

I'm building custom module. It's makes some calls to db and produce a filtered list (30-150 items) of db records (2k-5k items).
May I ask some questions?

How can I include my module content into some of my Book pages?

How can I pass arguments to this module? (it should exhibit different information for different Book pages)

Are there a simple ways of adding A-Z pagination (i mean first page - all records starting with 'A', second page - with 'B' and so on).

May I pass arguments to module via URL?

Thank you for your attention.

Right now I have 4 systems running PunBB as the Forum manager. I also am a moderator for a large medical site that is thinking about migrating from PunBB to Drupal.
I was wondering if anyone out there has done something like this. I saw a few posts about PhPBB, so I am sure it is similar.

In terms of the database. We have over 7000 members with over 11,000 topics. Is there a way
to migrate some of that information from PunBB (MySQL DB) to a Drupal system?

I'm switching to Drupal from a raw html-and-ftp website. The site is quite old, and has ~45 html pages of information. Out there on the internet there may be many deep links into our website. I'd like to preserve as much backward compatibility as possible by keeping the content at those URLs static (though I'd like to put them "into" drupal so that others can edit them).