General discussion

Looking for a few quick ideas on modules to look at for various features of a Price Comparison site.

The site takes a feed of products with prices, one feed per supplier. It stores them in a database catalogue, and then displays the products in various ways. It tracks views/clicks of each product, and produces reports of this data. It has basic administration capabilities.

I am looking for module suggestions for the following basic functions:

I am using TinyMCE and whenever a person submits an article it doesnt show up the way they did when they submitted it because some of the HTML tags are filtered out. (like IMG) How do I make it so there are no HTML tag filters on registered user's accounts?

(Also how do I make it so they have to preview their content before thay can submit?)

In one of my content types I have a required category field with a hierarchical listing of categories. However, Drupal automatically sets the first item listed as selected by default. I'm worried that users will gloss over this and/or just accept the default.

Is it possible to set it so that *no* term is selected initially, so the user is forced to actively choose one before he can save the node?

When I go to 'admin > content > content types', should I not see and be able to administer CCK content types and fields? All I see are my different flexinodes. Even when I click on 'fields' there aren't any options to edit my CCK fields, just a list of them. I am the admin user and even checked access control.

I plan on making a Tutorial website (using Drupal) where people can submit their own tutorials for photoshop and other graphics programs. I have my website installed and workin, but I was wondering if there is a module or plugin that will allown users to submit tutorials, and after they are submitted they go into a list with a picture next to them. Also on the front page I would like to see like the last submitted tutorials. Any help on this would be appriciated as I am new to Drupal and CMSs in general.

I have a table that has a stock_code in it, which is a reference to and actual stock nid.