Post installation

I have a pretty simple article site. There are articles (text pages), there are categories of articles (index pages). Typical Drupal stuff.

Now, what I want to do is, on the homepage, I want to show four lists of links to the most recent articles in four of my categories, with an image and a caption for each article. So each article would need a "homepage thumbnail" associated with it, along with a caption text.

I've required authors to preview their posts at administer >> settings >> posts, yet unless the user has administer nodes permission the preview does not appear. Is this the intended behavior, or have I missed another setting? If the former, where should I modify Drupal so that preview is available for all?

I have a real basic question that I have yet to find a simple answer for...

My Drupal 5 site has nodes that are public and notes that are restricted to a certain role. I need to do two things:

1. Hide menu items for some roles
2. Hide stories and pages from coming up in search results or aggregation views (i.e. some nodes can't be seen or accessed by most roles)

What am I missing :)

I'm using CCK nodes and contemplate to output some custom nodes, one of them is a custom blog node.

I need to add technorati tags, but i'm not sure how. I looked around drupal, but there were some various solutions, some that seemed to date back to 4.7 - i'm curious if there's a standard implementation in 5.0. I know Drupal 5.0 uses RSS 2 feeds, but i don't know much about Technorati, and what's required to output tags for it.

I want to use free-tagging, the last time i looked at it, Drupal creates new terms for each added tag right?

Drupal is throwing errors.
Here's the error:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function drupal_anonymous_user() in
/Volumes/250/Users/newlinkmkt/www/drupal-4.7.4/includes/session.inc on line
27
Anyone have a fix?

Thanks in advance
Garry

I use flexinode fields extensively on my site, and I would like to publish a combined RSS feed that draws from several flexinode content types.

I know I can get a regular feed using a URL like: http://example.com/flexinode/feed/1

Is there a way I can get combined feeds using something like: http://example.com/flexinode/feed/1,2,5

(E.g. for a feed that combines content-types flexinode-1, flexinode-2 and flexinode-5 content types.)