Post installation

Hello

I have installed a vote_up_down.module to use for rating posts on nodes and comments by giving them positive (up) and negative (down) points, much like it reddit.com has.

The module is apparently meant to work with the vote_storylink.module as the primary goal seems to be to clone the reddit.com and even digg.com experience. However, I am not planning to do that and I would just like to use it for simple rating of articles, forum posts and blog entries. The module package includes the vote_storylink.module as well as an example template.php and node-storylink.tpl.php where the voting (up and down) widget is already enabled. The help, however, says that I can include the widget through a template for other content types and modules by following a vote-storylink.tpl.php example.

From what I've seen, the example uses this to call and display the widget:

print $vote_up_down_widget

But that doesn't work. Nothing happens and nothing is displayed, even when I turn off the built in display of the widget (for the template switch not to contradict it) from the admin area. And yes, I have copied the context of template.php that was provided. I merged the phptemplate_variables function that is there with the one that already existed in my own, so it ultimately looks like this:

<?php
function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) {

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question (if so, could you tell me where I should have? thx.)

I don't see the Mime Mail module in the downloads area for 4.7. I downloaded the module and reviewed it, but it doesn't indicate its 4.7 compatiabilty anywhere. Has anyone had any success in getting it to work with 4.7?

I've created a new navigation block (called My Navigation) and have an Admin menu in it. I've got the Expand set to 'No', but the Admin menu items do not expand when I click the Admin menu, as it does on the standard Navigation Block. When I change the Expand to 'Yes' they are expanded (always).

I've searched and seen the problems with aliases and expanding. But the only way I know of getting the admin functions are using paths that look like 'admin/access'.

Does anyone know what the issue is or a good workaround?

Thanks!

This question has surfaced on the forums before, but never completely resolved.

The problem.
Enable Druapl Cache (For performance) and enable PHP Zlib compression i.e. set
'zlib.output_compression = On' in php.ini (for Bandwidth).

This leads to problems with viewing the page in IE. The user gets internal Error 500 with
something like
[17-May-2006 12:02:54] PHP Warning: gzinflate(): data error in /bootstrap.inc on line 529

It seems like /admin currently defaults to showing /admin/logs. I was wondering if I could change it to /control_panel for example. I tried overriding it with a path alias, but that really screwed some things up. How would you recommend I have /admin redirect to /control_panel?

Thanks,
Frank

A search revealed that this has been asked several times, but never answered -- does anyone know of a way to create a parent menu item which DOESN'T open a new page when clicked but DOES reveal its child menu items? I am particularly interested in doing this in the Primary Links area, but would also like to know how to do it in the regular side navigation (if possible). Thanks for any advice or guidance.