Drupal 7.x

I am in the process of migrating my web server from a very old Gentoo based install to a more modern/current Ubuntu install. As part of this, I'd like to upgrade Drupal from 6.20 to 7.x (whatever x is by the time I get that far along).

I currently use, and like the 'fourseasons' theme. There doesn't seem to be a Drupal 7 version of it.
http://drupal.org/project/fourseasons

http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g416/carolineblog/fordforum.jpg

I created a page with views and gave it the url alias "updates." Then I tried to create a menu link to that alias. When I tried to save the menu, I received an error message: "The path 'updates' is either invalid or you do not have access to it." Next, I tried to create the menu link in Views, but the link didn't appear in the menu. Finally, when I try to visit the view in my browser by using the alias, I receive a "Page Not Found" error.

i'm trying to edit/chance the user login block such that it appears on the top left corner of pages like this

welcome, guest! sign in :: sign up

and once a user signs in...

welcome, [user]! sign out :: my account

i would like to implement a modal/shadow box to bring up the sign in and sign up windows.

this wuld also do nice if i could figure out where and/or how to change block_user_login

Does any know how to preprocess the $main_menu variable so that all the menu items are in all caps?

here is my function in template.php but it's not working:

function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$variables) 
{	
	foreach($variables['main_menu'] as $l)
	{
		$l['title'] = strtoupper($l['title']);
	}
}

I'm a beginner! Help!

I have a contrib theme that is not showing a "pager" on the front page when it should(other themes do). I filed an issue in the queue, but what file is that supposed to be generated from in a theme?