Post installation

I've been working with organic groups and the core forum module for about a week, and I'm generally pleased with how they interact. I'm getting stuck, though, trying to implement one of my key requirements.

Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:

1) All groups share the same forums. (easy)
2) Forums page shows all posts to anonymous users. (easy)
3) Forums page shows authenticated users only posts to their subscribed groups. (where I'm getting stuck)

Some Background:

1) Solving the first requirement was easy. All I needed to do was create forum areas using the core forums module, and all of my groups were able to post to these forums. This seems to be the normal behavior for the og and core forums modules.

2) The second requirement wasn't difficult either. First, I verified my settings under administer / access control to make sure anonymous users had privileges for "node module: access content" and "comment module: access comments". Next, I went to administer / settings / og and made sure "visibility of posts" was set to "Visible within the targeted groups and on other pages" (which has the effect of marking every post as "Public"). This combination of settings allows search engine spiders and other guest visitors to see plenty of posts when they visit the forums page.

3) Now the part where I'm getting stuck -- I keep running into an apparent conflict between requirements #2 and #3:

I usually stay logged in to my Drupal site, so it wasn't until yesterday that I realised that my latest two posts have not made it to the front page, even though I've checked the appropriate boxes in the "publishing options".

I can see them perfectly from my logged-in-point-of-view, but the casual visitor can not see them at all.

Any suggestions to why this has happened?

I have been trying to secure my drupal site to prevent files that have been uploaded being downloaded by a non authenicated user.

This is what I have done

administer->settings->filesystem-settings

path = ../../files (i.e. not inside the web context)
download method = private

administer->access-control

View uploaded files = unchecked for anonymous user

I also have the securesite module which is set to enable http authorization on everything except for /?q=logout

What are the database table and field names for a node's 'authored on' text input? Hopefully someone can tell me where this is stored.

After allready posting

http://drupal.org/node/80709

and I thought that was the only problem I have just found out that links in the pages do not also work, why can this be?

this is the page
http://www.mkpitstop.co.uk/?q=ebay-section-forum
as you can see the link is the coloured text but its not able to be clicked?

Hi, i am finding some image gallery, but i cant find the right one. (http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/67)

I would like have gallery module, which will add gallery under the article. (I dont want to gallery was isolated in node).

Please give me that advice if you know..

thank you