Post installation

I'm pretty new with PHP and mySQL, I'm trying to figure out how to write a PHP snippet that can display the latest links starting with a certain letter from a certain content type... I checked out the current Drupal PHP snippets and found the one that can display links based on content type, but I don't know how to change it.

For example: I need all "stories" who's node titles with the letter A.

Here is the current code:

Alright. Here is my problem.

I have just installed Drupal and I love it! I now would like to have another site for my dad on the same install as mine, just in a sub-domain of my sub-domain (I am "isaac.acespace.co.uk", i want him to be "tony.isaac.acespace.co.uk"). I have created the sub-domain, and renamed the "default" folder in "/sites" to "isaac.acespace.co.uk", and added a folder "tony.isaac.acespace.co.uk" which has it's own configured settings.php file (for it's own DB) and a "files" folder...

I use MeCommerce ad system on my site. This system sells books to US residents only and their ad block has no value for residents of another countries.

Can I somehow show the ad block (usual Drupal block) only to the visitors with US-based IP addresses?

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i have a site running drupal 4.7.2 with hebrew translation. when i opened my site today, the whole content was garbeled. i haven't made any changes to the site. all the text coming from the templates is fine, but the text from the database is garbled. can anyone tell me what the problem is?
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The links on thumnails in feed appear as doulbe path.

See this feed: http://adsoftheworld.com/node/feed

Newsreader give a link on thumbnails as
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/media/print/inova_outdoor_torch_tiger
instead of simply
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/inova_outdoor_torch_tiger.

Is this a Drupal problem or newsreader problem?

My Googlers' Blogs site is an aggregator of all the known blogs of the Google employees. It publishes some 3-10 items a day and people would like to discuss some of them. Unfortunately usual comments don't suite the situation, the post goes out of the front page too fast.