Drupal 7.x

Hi,

Recently I've started using Drupal, I've done quite a lot of reading to try and understand most of it. At the moment however I'm running into problems. I'm trying to create a website for a club with members.

I don't want these members to have "usernames", I want them to have real information:
- first name
- family name
- birth date
- etc.

I've been stuck on a weird problem for a couple of very long days.

I keep getting this error but it doesn't happen automatically and it's very hard to track down what's the cause of it.

Recoverable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in DatabaseStatementBase->execute() (line 2039 of /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/includes/database/database.inc)

I suspect it's the module I'm currently trying to get to work.

Hi, Need help with the following error which is preventing me from installing modules.

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to access temporary://bandcamp-7.x-0.1.tar.gz in file_save_upload() (line 1528 of /f5/stealingaxion/public/includes/file.inc).

File upload error. Could not move uploaded file.

We have a well-established site consisting of about 300 pages, built entirely from html and well-designed css. We're not sure what direction to take as we rebuild the site in Drupal.

We'll ask some questions in order to get across our concerns but maybe we're even asking the wrong questions:

Should we start with a subtheme? Themed from what? Zen?

Should we start with Stark?

What approach and what order do we do things in?

I have done some reading on this topic but am still confused. There appears to be a change for 6.x to 7.x where the "post new topic" button for forum does not appear on all the forum pages. This thread seemed to create a fix for the problem http://drupal.org/node/786620 This issue was worked on in May last year.

I checked the files in qn on my installation (7.x) and the files appear to be changed in the core. I assume subsequent core versions had this fix applied.

I have a multistep form which is shown when i click a custom submit button on the node's edit page.
In the end i change the node with this code:

//save new value in the node
$gnode=node_load($nid);
$gnode->gnorm=$gnorm_new;
node_save($gnode);

Then i open the next step page, which shows the result of the change.
On this last page i've go a submit button "back".
But it does nothing when clicked because of the node_save command.
When i comment node_save out, the button works.
Why is that so?