Post installation

I took me forever to learn, that I could install Drupal (and other PHP apps) locally instead of shelling out money for webhosting. So now I have WAMP installed on my pc -after many years. Installing Drupal 5 was a breeze, since I have done this a few times before on my webhosting account. But the email function does not work locally on my windows xp! It works fine, if I upload Drupal to my paid webhosting account! I am lost, so here is my Q?

Do I need an Email Sever for this to work? or is PHP able to handle email somehow itself?

I am using Contemplate to generate a node template. I need to include a link to the user that created the node.

For example, I am using:

<a href="user/<?php print $node->uid ?>"><?php print $node->name ?></a>

But that make a link to "node/user/3" which isn't what I want.

I want "user/3".

I think that node is sneaking in there from the "node" specified under Site Information.

If I remove that though the site doesn't work because it generates a "Page not found" error.
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I'm running a gallery (using Gallery), and it's embedded into Drupal. I want to allow users to be able to upload images to that gallery.

However, in the name of preventing spam, goatse, the usual, I want it to be completely moderated (based on user role preferably).

I was thinking that a user could upload directly to the gallery, but put it in a special private album that only certain roles can see and edit, it could essentially be a moderation queue. The problem here is, I don't want that album to be viewable by the same people who can upload into it, and I haven't found a way to do that with roles. This would be like a drop-box, and would be nice because any accepted images can be moved directly into the gallery from there.

Alternatively, even just a way for a user to upload a picture to a (again, private) queue that only administrators (or a given role) could see would also work, as the pictures could then be manually added. My big concern is making the users able to upload pictures to the queue, but not see any pictures that are currently in it (their own, I don't care about, but whatever works).

What I DON'T want, however, is for the pictures to be published once accepted (like a blog entry or what-not), otherwise the Image module would work fine for what I need, and I could turn on administer moderation of submissions.

Is it possible to esclude images from the result of a search?
Thank, Aress :)

I'm looking for news aggregations solution for Drupal 5.0 - with true nodes feature. Any suggestions?
I've checked http://drupal.org/node/82257 - contrib modules version 5.x status - and there are no feed related 5.0 modules.
Thanks.

In Drupal 4.7.4, with the latest version of the book module installed, are book pages automatically kept to a certain length?

If you go through the essays listed on /www.frodosnotebook.net/essays, you'll see that only some of them display when clicked. The rest result in a page not found error (it actually searches for the page since I have the Search404 module installed, too), and those error pages are for the longer essays only.