Post installation

I woul like make a block where I get latest posts from a category and insert on the left/right of those titles a small image, such as http://www.novaplanet.com/ home page section "Articles"

I mean:

[img] title
abstract
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[img] title
abstract
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[img] title
abstract
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or al last:

[img] title
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[img] title
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[img] title
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I'm using Drupal 5

If I add nodes to a front page as a blog or story type node, how long do they stay on the front page? I presume there must be a setting somewhere, but am unsure where it is.

Hi
Installed Drupal 5 on Fedora Core 6, Apache 2, PHP 5.1.6, Postgres 8.1 (Unicode database for drupal).

I'm working on a new version of a site and have noticed that the same page displays differently depending on how it's accessed. The page in question is my home page http://test.boahc.co.uk which is also listed as a menu item http://test.boahc.co.uk/information

I've just seen in the following article http://drupal.org/node/73999#comment-165966 mention of using story instead of blog and to run a bit of code to convert entries from blog to story.

I've only got the one "blog" on my site and it's used for practice news items and I don't have that many of them so this sounds like it could be a good solution.

Can someone explain how to run the code:

UPDATE node SET type = 'story' WHERE type = 'blog'

Guys,

I'm wondering if anyone can offer any help or advice, or even point me somewhere to get the answered to these questions.

My site is currently using drupal 4.7.3 (yes i know i'm bad for not upgrading) and I would like to upgrade it to make it secure.

I have the following modules being used

actions
authorship
captcha
chatbox
contact_list
event
formsingle
image
img_assist
inline
links
linksdb
notify
smileys
ststiatics_filter
urlfilter
workflow