Post installation

Hey All...
First time posting a forum topic...hope I'm in the right place!

I'm creating a podcast using a custom CCK content type (not the audio module), and then generating my page using views. The view is using the RSS Feed Selector (with display all values chosen) to generate my podcast feed from the view. (it then goes to feedburner, and they do their magic)

Good so far.

Hello fellow drupalers. I am new at drupal i just installed drupal 5.1 and i have been playing around with it for the past couple of days. Im having a big problem with forums. They look pretty bad. and after alot of searching i installed flat forums. i dont know if that is working right or not the forums are still pretty weird looking. I am starting to think my theme might be the cause. i am using slash black as a base. i followed all the instructions when i installed flat forums but not my post are all just gray. to test i installed flat forum on blue marine and it looks amazing.

I just opened my root folder and there are at least ten 14-15Mb files sitting in there, which are of unknown origin. The names of all are "core.xxxxx" where xxxxx is a random number. What is this?? Anyone knows?

I have tried everything I can possibly think of and I cannot get the referral module to work. Everything seems to be running smoothly, except for the fact that the referral url's generated do not exist. They return "page not found" errors. Any suggestions?

I must be misssing something simple. I have a page on say tractors with an address www.mydrupalsite.com/tractors. I have an information page whose body text says blah blah.. and dont forget to check out our page on tractors...

How do I tell the page to treat the word tractors as a link to the tractors page without hand coding it?

I'm sure I saw a turorial wher the presenter was just typing body text and typed say 'holiday' and it immediatly turned it into a link and he said "Oh I have a page Holiday"

Folks

I am a relatively new Drupal user with two installations on 4.7.6. At least one will be upgraded to 5.0 to combat the latest round of security issues. I am however concerned at the slew of of security problems affecting Drupal and popular modules, as this is creating a support overhead I don't have time for.