Drupal 6.x

I would like to start a very basic social networking website. The features I would like a user to have would include:
-Creating an account which can be updated with basic information (Name, location, etc.)
-Creating event
-Being able to join or RSVP to events
-Being able to upload photos to user accounts.

I am familiar with HTML and some PHP, but not sure if I will be able to use Drupal. Could I?

does the friendly URL work on IIS or using the mod rewrite for apache ONLY?

and what forum integration (what is this forum?) is available?

Hi - I've tried amending the template.php file to add a region as follows;
(This is from a 5 tempalte which I upgraded to Drupal 6 smiply by adding the new .info file to my template file - apart from this issue it seems to work great)

hi i just installed the latet version of gmap and am trying to do the following

have users login and fill in the info > this info has information to show the location on a google map
you can see the posts here http://www.goglean.org/

as you can see that the posts show up in google maps if clicked , but i would like these individial entries to all be shown together on one map

I would like to put straight code in a block with out any cleaning or tag adding.

At the moment when I add code in, it puts < p > and < br/ > tags in my code and I end up with massive gaps everywhere.

Any way to just add code with out it adding anything to it or taking anything away??

Thanks

I've recently added a theme called Framework ( http://drupal.org/project/framework ) and in the 1.0 initial release, my $Id$ tags were broken due to a -kk CVS upload, and only show non-expanded "$Id$" tags without datestamps.

Now in my current release (1.2), the $Id$ tags are fixed, but my drupal installation says "There are updates available" and says that the Framework theme should be "updated" to the initial (1.0) release, or the "recommended release."