Post installation

Greetings, all.

I have been using drupal for a while. For some reason when it is running on our basic webserver it is sucking up all the available memory. I am currently using drupal 4.7.3. I have switched cacheing on but that isn't always helpful as it only caches authenticated users and the site is going to be used for mostly anonymous users. I have a couple of drupal sites running on a VPS with php4 and mysql 4 and they don't seem to show this hoovering activity. On the site I am having problems with it is using php5 (fedora core 4) and mysql 4 running on a dual core intel Xeon with 512mb RAM.

I was wondering if I could be pointed in the direction of relevant tutorials. I'm a bit confused by the functions offered by Drupal and the various modules and don't know which one will be more appropriate.

Please note - I am designing a website for a charity. I am not a programmer but I am able (and willing) to learn basics to modify what I need. The end result needs to be easy to update and maintain.

(What I've done so far)
- I have created my own template by modifying page.tpl.php and style.css of bluemarine.
- I have created a basic hierarchy for navigation using category module with primary links along the top and secondary links displayed in a side menu.
- I have created a custom menu/block showing a user's profile and log out option when logged in.
- I do not want all users to be able to edit their own blog; instead, I would like admin to create their blog for them (will only be quite a small site).
- I have done this so far by creating a category called Michael's Blog under the Blogs container. This is displayed as a secondary link.

(The problem now)
1. I think the above approach for blogs is wrong. Essentially I want admin to approve requests for blogs and for blogs not to be automatically assigned to registered users. Would I be better off creating a blogging users role? What would I do afterwards to get this to work as the category does in the menu and breadcrumb hierarchy?

I get a 404 at:

http://127.0.0.1/drupal/drupal-4.7.3/?q=user/register

And I dont know why.

Everything else works, as far as I can tell.

Ideas on where to start checking? Drupal is proving a little difficult for me to figure out.

Thank you.

J

I am trying to get the goofy theme working on 4..7.3. Supposedly there is a patch that fixes the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function form_checkbox() in . . . ./themes/engines/goofy/goofy.theme on line 16

When I go to Home > Administer > Themes > Goofy

I will give the patch a try, but I don't know how to apply a patch with drupal.

hello,
after weeks of thinking about a way of setting up a community website as I imagined, i'm going to being productive, so, my (almost) last questions are:

1. how may I assing one main user to every subsite i create?
I need to create an user that will be able to manage his/her own subsite only, create users, enable other users to let people post on his/her subsite or let them comment only but hasn't to be admin (as uid 1 user) with all admin menus than could confuse them.