Drupal is up and running but how do I ...?

Noob questions part 1

Having setup a number of Xoops and e107 sites in the past I'm not a complete noob to cms but I'm finding elements of Drupal pretty tough.

This is my first day playing with Drupal so be kind, :)

I want to have a "latest story" block on the front page. ( can't quite believe that this in not standard)

I've seached and have read through a number of posts and I think I'm losing something in translation in terms that "module" "Block" mean slightly different things from cms to cms.

phpBB2drupal: Users have already been imported.

I am currently running a site that used to be just a phpBB2 site. I recently added drupal as the main page for some better content management. I currently use the phpbb module to have the drupal and phpbb portions work nicely together. The problem is that I have run into some annoyances with the current setup and would like to switch to an all drupal configuration.

How do I find out what field name cck uses for a created field?

I make a dropdown field called "foo bar" in cck. if I were to call that field say for a phptemplate, it should be "$foo_bar", right?

But if I go to my database via phpmyadmin, that field is called "foo_bar_value".

I also have used contemplate, and the field is listed as "foo_bar[0]"

So which is it? I am so confused.

I have been tring to figure out what the correct name is for awhile now, and nothing seems to work correctly. my previous question regarding cck, was too complicated, I guess, so I am just trying a simpler approach.

intangible subproducts

Has anyone produced a subproducts module like apparel that can handle downloadable file-type products?

TIA

Seine Dog

Organic group join options

For organic groups when you create a group you can choose how people can subscribe. The last two choices are

invite only - subscriptions must be created by an administrator.
closed - subscriptions are fully administered by an administrator. 

To me invite only would me the group administrator could invite people (by email) and they could choose to join or not. But I can not find any difference between the two modes 'invite only' and 'closed' and would appreciate if someone could enlighten me. Thanks

File upload not working

I cant seem to get file uploads of any type working. I searched everywhere I could think of for an answer to this and could find none.

If I try to upload a user picture it always tells me:The uploaded file was not an image. I tried gif, png, jpg of 80x30 dimensions and 3k in size.

Trying to upload an attachment onto a page it shows size of 0 and lists no file name. Then save the page and nothing is written to it. Any ideas?

Using IIS 6, Drupal 4.6.9, PHP 4.X.

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