Is Drupal a viable solution for my website? Please review What is Drupal before posting.

Looking into using drupal for large community website.

I am the founder of the largest community website for the opensource 3d software Blender (www.blender3d.org).
This community (www.elYsiun.com) is largely based around the forum (phpBB 2.0.x). For a while now we’ve been looking into expanding elYsiun into a full community website, attempts at this have been made but due to lack of time and motivation they have never quite been finished.

Now we’re looking very seriously into using an existing opensource php / mysql based CMS, Drupal sure does look to be a very interesting and powerfull implementation. There are however some things we definitely need / want on elYsiun. Two of those things can potentially break the decision to go with Drupal, or any CMS for that matter.

1. The forum
We currently use phpBB as the backbone of elYsiun and I for one would like to keep it that way, or include a forum which atleast comes close to the feature set and usability of phpBB.

2. An article system
Like I said elYsiun.com is a community website for the opensource 3d software Blender. Blender has a very extensive feature set which results in a fairly high learing curve (as with any powerfull 3d software). Over the years experienced users have created hundreds of tutorials for Blender, some very small and some very extensive.
These tutorials tend to be texts explaining how to attack certain problems, illustrated with images and downloads.

Document Management System?

I am really impressed with the look of this site, and with wat I hear of the design. It seems that Drupal has a good balance of yin and yang, geek/non-geek. (I guess it is pretty geeky for most but I am fairly geeky).

I am writing to ask about Document Management Capabilities, for mulitiple users, with a folder for "my documents", and "my groups documents", ideally with a "versioning system" (although I am not entirely sure what that is)?

Switching Servers

I already have a sizable Drupal site running on a Windows XP Server using Apache 2.0.48, MySQL 4.1.1, PHP 4.3.4, and Drupal 4.3.2. What is the best way to move this entire site over to a Linux server running Apache 2.0.48, MySQL 4.0.17, PHP 4.3.4. Can I just copy the files over? What about the database?

The Linux server is one I own and have root access to and is running Gentoo Linux 1.4 with the 2.6.3 kernel.

2 Forums, visible and invisible?

In Drupal is it possible to have 2 forums, one for everyone, and an other "by invitation only"? Can the "by invitation only" forum then be invisible for everyone else?

Would Drupal be suitable for my website (personal site)?

I'm looking to build a personal website. I only really want two areas:

1. Frontpage which also doubles as a blog. People can comment on new updates. I want to be able to possibly format my blog with HTML, such as adding in images. I assume this is fine?

How hard to make block that displays 1 forum?

Is it possible in drupal to have multiple forums, and then display the most current messages each in their own seperate block? How would I go about starting that?

I would like to display the names of all the people who create blogs on my drupal site, how would I go about starting that project?

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