Post installation

Hi. Being someone who's still just investingating making drupal my development platform, I'd like to know how some of the Drupal sites I see were created. In other words, what features/techniques/tricks did the developers of that particular site use to get the result they've gotten.

Reading docs can be helpful but for me I do much better if I see specific solutions to specific problems. I think this will help a lot of N00bs out.

I have installed the latest Captcha module and TextImage as well. I have enabled both modules. I have configured properly, I believe. I have two problems:

+ Captcha does not show up in the Access Control screen as a module at all, but the documentation for Captcha says I should see it and be able to control access to it.

+ Captcha does not show up on any of the pages (e.g., user registration) that I have specified.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, disabling and enabling and I cannot get Captcha to work. Any help is appreciated.

HAJ

If I'm not mistaken, most of the input formats don't allow JavaScript, except for "PHP" and "Full HTML". I reinstalled "Markdown and Smartypants" for my use, and would like to allow use of JavaScript.

Is there a way to add this functionality? I'd like to have JavaScript-on version and -off version if possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using drupal 4.6.5 and starting yesterday i received this error msg related to comments module. please help!

user error: Can't open file: 'comments.MYI'. (errno: 145)
query: SELECT DISTINCT(c.nid), c.* FROM comments c WHERE c.status = 0 ORDER BY c.timestamp DESC LIMIT 0, 10 in D:\Clients\9097\indrani.net\indrani.net\includes\database.mysql.inc on line 66.

Hey all,

I am looking for a way to create an about us page and some other plain text pages, can anyone tell me is the is just a simple html file with drupal header info them, is the a module that I can use, and how do I make links to drupal modules eg... forum link on page what is the URL for that?

thanks and sorry I am such a newb

ED

I have encountered an issue where Drupal is displaying "n/a" in node lists. Here's the full code:

  <div class="node">
        <h2 class="title"><a href="node/"></a></h2>
    <div class="content">n/a</div>
    <div class="links"></div>
  </div>

Anybody know why this is happening?