Post installation

I run a small non-profit in Vermont that aims to help students write better. We are in collaboration with schools, students, professional writers, teachers and universities/colleges and newspapers. We currently have a very basic, static site at http://www.youngwritersproject.org. I am in the process of building a new Drupal site that will be interactive and afford students an opportunity to create a community of young writers.

Part of what we do is seek submissions from students, usually in response to a prompt. These submissions are then judged and the best are selected for publication. We presently have a crude php-based system for doing that; a friend created this. ( http://youngwritersproject.org/submit1.php ) The submissions are uploaded into a MYSQL database and onto a hidden page; this submissions page is viewed ONLY by selected judges. I will not bore you with the tediousness of the present set-up but this project is very successful and the number of prompts we receive is enormous and the present set-up is very cumbersome.

I am seeking to integrate the submission process into the new Drupal site (which is not operable yet, but you can see where I'm headed at http://www.youngwritersproject.org/drupal ) I am having issues with this installation and am in the process of starting from scratch to build a firmer foundation.

I am, as you might guess, a newbie so please be patient.....

How do I enable tagging for the blog content type? It may be something quite obvious but I can't seem to find the setting.

Not sure where to post this, so if this is the wrong place, please re-direct me.

I have more than one theme installed. Of course, one theme is the default. The others are all enabled. administer->blocks displays two tabs. The first is: "list" and the second is "add block". If I select "list", each of the themes shows up in a separate tab with the word "settings". So, the first tab is "theme1 settings" and the second tab is "theme2 settings", etc.

I guess I was surprised this wasn't obvious.

I'm creating "pages" for my drupal site, but want to allow other people to edit certain pages. Would love to say "ok, users A, B, and D (or group F) can now edit page X."

I don't want to give them "administer nodes" permissions.

Easily possible? Possibly easy? Taxonomy_access and tac_lite don't seem to apply because these are pages, not blogs/stories with taxonomy.

Would love if revision control of these pages would be enabled so these particular pages would be like wikis.

Is it possible to disable the option to search usersr with the search module?

I setup drupal locally. I browse each page but the url comes like "http://localhost/drupal/?q=admin/modules...". What I want is to remove "?q=" from the query string. Can I use the Url aliasing for this purpose?