Post installation

This is what I want to do and i cannot figure it out, tried with CCK/nodereference, tried category module, transforming nodetypes etc but just cannot get my head round it:

i want users to create a node of type ORDER.
I want them to create entries like "white, neutered, siamese, cat", or "wild, shetland pony, horse"
(this is actually an analogy, my example is more industry specific so I chose animals as something everyone can relate to)

First I want to ask what animal: horse, cat, duck or whatever (on a seperate section each animal has its own page with picture, info etc. so it has to be a node in its own right)
Then I ask the breed. If he selected horse, the dropdown options are shetland pony, trotting horse etc.
If he selected cat the dropdown options are persian cat, siamese cat etc.
(I got this far :P, I actually just have one dropdown with the cat breeds as children of the cat, and horse breeds children of the horse etc. - that was easy).

Now it gets complicated here, I want to ask some more options depending on the ANIMAL (not breed).
e.g. if he selected horse, I want to know how ridable it is? (wild, semi-tamed, very tame)
if he selected cat, i want to know whether its neutered or not, and what color is it? white/grey/tabby etc.

So I think the first thing I need to do no matter what the solution is create nodetypes
Animal nodetype - Horse, cat, duck etc.

Hi, I have installed the latest drupal, tinymce and flexinode. I would like to make my writers force to add an unique image or icon to a post just like Jaggle (http://www.jaggle.nl/english.htm). It is possible to add an image with the upload module and then add the image with tinymce. There must be a better solution but I can't figger out how.

The image als has to have a default css class or id so it gets floated left and gets a nice border.

I have installed the latest version of flatforum, and everything works except I get a problem when I copy the flatforum folder into my modules directory and enable flatforum as admin, then when i go to a forum topic i see the following errors at the top of my screen:

user error: Table 'vssig_db.vssig_flatforum' doesn't exist
query: SELECT posts FROM vssig_flatforum WHERE uid = 2 in /var/www/vssig/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.

after install tinyMCE, my teaser got screwed... I'm using UTF-8, but is tinyMCE DB encoding differetly?

instead trimmed at 200 characters...it displays the entire content.

I can't seem to get medium vote to work. I have installed the voting api and medium vote. I've also enabled both of these modules. Is there more?

Simple vote works fine but I would much rather use medium vote

My url ends in ?q=anyPage, while other sites i visited end in /node/anyPage/ I am guessing it has to do with clean URL? Can anyone point me to the clean URL instructions?
Sounds like a silly question, really, but, hey, maybe there's a trick i dont know without enabling the clean URL thing.

Thanks.