Drupal 7.x

I have started getting the following error on my Drupal 7 installation:

Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in views_block_view() (line 519 of C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\sites\all\modules\views\views.module).

Some background:

If I want to have a 'welcome' paragraph on my homepage that can be edited through Drupal, how can I do that? I've created a 'Basic Page' content type article and set it to appear on the front page. I then edited my settings so that only one post shows on the front page and that 'Basic Page' article types show the full post and do not truncate.

This seems to help but I still have two problems:

How do I customize the look of the RSS Feed Subscribe Page to look like my theme of my website? Looks flaky with just a white background, description block and a display option block! :( I would to dress that up!

Also where is Drupal generating this rss.xml file? I don't see it anywhere in the root folder(s).

I thought this was related to Zen, but it appears to happen on any custom theme I apply. Inside pages work, but the html.tpl.php wrapper is missing.

Anyone with similar problems?

Greetings...

I am brand-spanking new to Drupal. I created a content type that I want to limit being displayed by the date. Ex. I do not want to see events that ended yesterday and earlier. Is there a way to do that?

I can't seem to install Drupal 7 without getting these warning messages. I read in another tread to give full permissions to site/default folder, made no difference for me. Btw, this a godaddy account.

Any help appreciated. I'm not a developer so please respond like I'm 5 :-)

Thanks is advance.

Message after install: