Before you start

Can users register to my website and post news using cutenews? If can how I do that? is drupal free to use and how long?

Well I currently am running postnuke. I have gotten fed up with how bloated it is. I started on developing my own cms but I found I don't have the time. So I decided to check out drupal. So I have a few questions.

Is the drupal core structure good enough to where I can strip out alot and rebuild some of the display functionality?
Does drupal support simple page display. For example I have a page called about.php. Can that display easily or does it have to use some page module.
Do all themes end up looking cookie cut?

Hi,

Hello,

This is not a problem but a technical question.
Before setting up the drupal site & database
but right after extracting Drupal 5.1 in /var/www/
when I load the URL /localhost/drupal51/ in my browser
i'm redirected to install.php
i've tried tracing that redirection but can't find it.
where is that redirection performed ?
in index.php or bootstrap.inc or where ?
Thanks.

I'm writing the Help pages/info for our company creating a web application. They're not ready to design their website or commit with regard to a tool to create, but want me to go ahead with writing/designing a help center (along the lines of GMail's Help Center).

They think they're going to implement (get the text onto Webpages in-house) later, but I'm thinking that we don't have to reinvent the wheel and use an open source CMS that has templates for this task. I've heard of Drupal through Pando.

Is it possible to copy an old database, with all existing posts, to a new domain?
Domain and database name would be different from the old ones.