Post installation

I have a root .htaccess file and then in my files directory a second one appears and when I delete it I can do thinks like see photos when running acidfree but when I create a new album or make changes the .htaccess file appears in the files subdirectory and causes 403 forbidden error page.

Can someone tell me how to fix this and in a step by step approach as I have no experience modifying .htaccess files - thanks, Jake.

my wife and i are using drupal for her formum www.wholewoman.com and her blog but i haven't been able to find how to ping aggregators and let them carry her blog on their rss feed. i spoke to our site developers and they sent me to www.pingomatic.com, but i don't want to have to do this manually every time she posts a new blog entry. help! thanks...

Where can find the theme function in the code?

The index.php does create an empty page. I trace down to it and execution stops when it runs this command:

print theme('page', $return);

I have a block with the search form at the top of my site (header position). When I do a search, the advanced search box appears above my search results Ilike a default install of drupal would show). This ends up looking really ugly, because I still have the search in the block, and now I have that search and the advanced search boxes showing. How do I disable this other search box?

I am trying to get Windows Live Writer to connect seamlessly to my site. I run a semi-private family site. So anonymous users and "authenticated users" (the drupal default) don't have access to most of the site.

When I try to connect with windows live writer, it can't detect the site settings. And when I look in my log I see that it is getting a blogapi/rsd denied (Anonymous).

Obviously, this is a permissions issue. Does anyone know how to give anonymous access to blogapi/rsd? And if so, is that something to be concerned about security wise.

Thanks,

When will I be able to search my site? Everytime I check on it, it says "0% of the site has been indexed. There are 4 items left to index.".

-Jordan