Drupal 7.x

I want to be able to add a breadcrumb trail to a page without putting it in the menu system. The menu_breadcrumb module works well for most of my content, but I want to keep the Primary Links menu limited to a few levels in depth and still be able to assign a parent item to sub-pages below that without creating additional menu items for them. In other words, when editing a page, I want to be able to optionally assign an existing menu item as its parent for the purpose of having at least the first three levels of the menu appear as breadcrumbs.

I've created a new content type to allow a user to upload a pdf with an article. The basic idea is that the user could announce a letter home from school on the front page and that the article would automatically create the download link. I've searched using several different terms and played with views without success. Is there an easy way to do this?

I've been trying to install CKEditor on my new Drupal 7 installation. I have followed all the instructions for setting up CKEditor, but when I add it to my modules directory, I get the following:

Hi. I'm trying to enable clean URLs, but am having trouble getting the .htaccess file to cooperate. By default, it causes the following error:
Error 500 Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l PHP/5.3.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1

I was able to get the site to display again by commenting out the lines below:

I have a content-type (titled Meeting) which has a title, date and committee. Committee is a vocabulary term list (includes terms such as Council, Finance...). I am trying to do a contextual filter on the committee type. So when creating a meeting, you put in a title, and select the date and select the committee. In the browser, I want to do this: /meeting would list all the meetings. /meeting/council would list only the council meetings.

How could I use the theme I'm about to create in 7.x ?
Here is a link to the tutorial I am following
http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/create-a-killer-band-site-with-drup...