Post installation

My webhost says that mod_rewrite IS enabled, but the enable/disable clean URLs buttons are greyed out and the clean URL test fails. My site is on a shared server and the webhost (Globat) does NOT permit AllowOverride (security!). There is no terminal or shell access and I can not see the httpd.conf file (there is no /etc directory visible).
Adding $conf['clean_url']=1; to the settings.php file enables the radio buttons on the settings menu and Drupal generates clean URLs but can't find the pages.

Is there a way to have items (nodes, commentc, etc) that are new to user X (ie added after X's last visit) marked as 'new' upon user X's login?
(This will probably need either a last logged out date on the user record or a n-to-m relation from node to user marking a user has 'read' the item?)

Thanks!

I'm using a specific field in my flexinodes to act as a teaser and it's displaying fine on my site. The problem comes with RSS feeds. When specifying to add the teaser to RSS feeds generated by Drupal, the teaser automatically generated for the node is added to the description field in the RSS feed and contains a lot of unwanted HTML, and a read more link.

Hi. I would like to create a custom block that does the exact same thing as the "Who's Online" block in the user.module (I don't want to edit the user.module because I want to be able to upgrade the Drupal installation without any problems). Can someone tell me exactly what I need to copy from the user.module file into this custom block to make it work? Thanks!

Today i tried to log into my site and was greeted with 'access denied' (doh!) I'm sure the password is correct because it's saved by Firefox.. I've tried with Firefox and IE, on 2 different computers, so it's not a cookie issue or anything. i've also verifed that no other users can log in either.. The 'email new password' function seems to be not working either.. (i'm using LoginToboggin, if it matters)

I am using Drupal-4.7.2 and the default theme (pretty much default everything). I want to remove the "edit primary links" menu item on the top right.

After searching through the forums I learnt that in earlier versions that was handled in the theme configuration section. However now I have to use the menu configuration.

So I head to the menu section, I see something like this