Post installation

I jumped into drupal to do the things I had been doing my hand, and it's cool, but I need to do some calendaring. After installing the events module, and having it blow up on me, I removed it and tried CCK and views... which both blow up on me.

The server is Red Hat EL4. PHP is 4.3.something and MySQL is 4.1.something.

I get hosts of warnings whenever I try to do anything with CCK, and everything craters when I try to install views.

Where should I look to start figuring out what I'm doing wrong?

How do I create a form to display on a page by itself, with none of the theme headers or side bars (just the bare form)?

I am using the Webform module.
Drupal 4.7
Monticello theme

Thank you in advance,
Moondrop

Need a little help with mod_rewrite and .htaccess rules.

Here's what I have:

domain registered: www.example.com

document root structure

/public_html
/subdir1
/subdir2
/drupalsite --->www.example.com

I want to set up a rule such as:

So, it says that the database schema would be automatically be created. Well it wasn't. It then says to add

CREATE TABLE `buddylist` (
`uid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`buddy` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`timestamp` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`received` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
UNIQUE KEY `uid-buddy-label` (`uid`,`buddy`),
KEY `uid` (`uid`)
) TYPE=MyISAM /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */;

--
-- Table structure for table `buddylist_buddy_group`
--

Is there a way to show the number of nodes under a given taxonomy in the menu system?

I have a large list of menu items which link to a particular taxonomy term and I would like the menu system to show the number of nodes in each category. Can this be done? If so how?
Category1(487)
Category2(314)
Category3(215)
etc...

Thanks for any info...

This is a two part question. I want to make it possible so that users can filter content based on certain attributes. For example, somebody has navigated to Plants > Flowers > Roses and there is a list of all the different roses. Some of the roses are thornless and some of the roses are yellow. There could be many different attributes so it doesn't make since to add another level of navigation or hierarchy for each attribute.