Before you start

Drupal seem great!

The newbie docs said that you should develop new sites on 6.x since that's where things are going these days, so that's what I'm attempting to do.

One problem though: There are very few modules I can use for 6.x! I keep seeing all these 5.x modules and I'm *drooling* over them! ha ha

Here's what I'm trying to do by the end of the year:

Develop a community/social site by the end of the year that has:

Hi,

Hi all I hope someone can help me.

I have designed a number of sites using html in dreamweaver si I do have some experience but no where near being an expert :).

I designed a site for an estate agent using html, There are a number of search engines specially for real estate, for us to put our real estate on these search engines I need to export each real estate object in a XML file.
Now because of the growing amount of real estate objects I am looking at creating a data base using PHP MyAdmin.

The website I'm running currently has 35,000 members with extended user details. I would like to redesign is using Drupal 6 but was wondering whether Drupal 6 handle this amount of users - all with extra profile fields?

I've been happily playing with D6, thinking it is the CMS for our site, but I will need 4 or 5 additional modules. I installed image module & it worked fine, since then but Drupal has not recognized any more modules that I have installed. I have not yet found a solution.

Are modules a problem area? Would I be better off looking for a CMS that has the features I want as standard?

cms made simple has most things we want, but I like Drupal better so far.

Require to set up a section within a website where a user can select (via checkboxes ?) multiple content nodes (title or node details retained) across possibly several content types whilst browsing. The select information is collated into a submission form where additional contact details etc are input and it is then sent to the website administrator. This is intended for a user to request further content node information (pdf or other files) which are not displayed on the website.