Drupal 7.x

Im using Drupal 7 for a company intranet. I'd "prefer" to keep the search system's minimum keyword length to 3 but I have some "exceptions" I am not sure how to deal with... specifically that we refer to our Human Resources department as "HR" and our Information Technology department as "IT". I know some users may be frustrated if HR or IT do not product results.

suggestions?

Chris

Intro: I have been tasked replacing our building our company's intranet, based on a homegrown ColdFusion CMS with something more scaleable and feature rich. A ColdFusion developer myself, I have selected Drupal both for its power, scalability, community and to develop some new skills... I have D7 installed on a Windows 2008 Server Runing IIS 7.5, PHP5 under FastCGI, and a dedicated MySQL server... Everything is running great, I am loving D7. I am a bit frustrated as a newbie with the documentation and the fact that all teh contrib modles I seem to want are not quite mature for D7, but here I am..

The core Article and Page content types will satisfy much of the content needs, however, I have a large collection of PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, etc. files and I am looking for ideas on how I will deal with them.

#1 I could extend the core article and page types to support a file field, requiring content contributors to create a page or article and attach the file, but that seems like a poor way to go as the person will need ot go to the file via the article.

#2 I could create a new 'document' content type with title, description, vocabulary, and file field. Seems like this would be a good way to go.. I could create some nice views pages/blocks etc... I have Organic Groups running and could make it a group content type aswell..

Every time I go to upload a module i get the following error:

Unable to create directory 'temporary://update-extraction/acl/'

what's it mean / how do I fix it.

Yes I know I should have looked through the forums for something, However I have been searching for a fix since yesterday, I figured It would be better to just ask upfront like this. That being said if some one could point me in the correct direction. I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for your time
-Alex

I am working on a creating a Zen subtheme on Drupal 7. The site works fine, but when I activate CSS aggregation all theming breaks down. Upon inspecting the aggregated CSS files, I have realized that none of the CSS from my theme is making it into the aggregated files. I have tried running other themes including another Zen subtheme with aggregation enabled; all work fine so it must be something in my theme. Does anyone have any idea where to look? The site is currently on a local test server, but I can send specific files if someone has an idea.

Thanks

I'm not sure if I'm searching wrong or looking for the wrong thing, but I can't seem to find any information on this for Drupal 7. I have even asked in the #drupal and #drupal-support IRC channels.

I simply need to be able to do something like:
"mysite.com/?q=contact&message=Hello+World"

I've seen people posting examples of this for earlier versions, and even a module (prepopulate), but nothing for 7.
Any advice would be appreciated.

After upgrading Drupal from 6.x to 7.x and running update.php I visit domain.com/user and I see the submit button, but no username and password text boxes - only empty