Post installation

does this work for someone?
http://drupal.org/node/92657
i can't get running this....ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh man

When I click on a term page, I get only the nodes associated with a term that have been flagged as "published to the front page." Searching the SQL log I see that the following query was run but I can't figure out what function compiles this query or if there is an admin setting to turn off.

Thank you.

Hoping to force filtered html on all but Story submissions. Is that possible, and how?

I recently took over the webmaster role from someone who left in a bad way. Point is I am learning as much as I can, but need a little help on FTP, CSS & Drupal relationships. Thank god for Dudertown screencasts but what I'm struggling with is:
the past administrator has downloaded Drupal (so have i).
He has uploaded all data files via FTP & MySQL to his webhost.
Now I have the job of changing the CSS files, which I'm all ready to do. (have done a few local host trials)
Question is, if i can change and export the CSS files from the drupal core on my hard drive, how can it effect the css files he originally saved?
I thought I would need access to his webhost's FTP passwords to find the domain's css, but seems like it can be done from within drupal.
I cant find clarity on this in the handbook/ forum, nor his tip:
"Style sheets can be altered within the domain access. For example, for
the X domain the stylesheets are located under
the /public_html/themes/ directory, as the session below indicates.

250 OK. Current directory is /public_html/themes
ftp> ls -a
229 Extended Passive mode OK (|||42724|)
150 Accepted data connection
drwxr-xr-x 6 33059 prosper 4096 Aug 3 04:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 33059 99 4096 Sep 15 11:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 33059 prosper 4096 Aug 3 04:18 bluemarine

Is there a generic function that I can truncate variables that are pulled from CCK nodes, to a given word length?

I have a variable output using contemplate;
print $node->field_news_body[0]['view']

I know there's a setting in drupal for teasers to be truncated, i'm wondering if I can use the same thing.

There is one specific page on my website I want users to access by logging in. How can I do that? Any modules? Add-ons?