Post installation

I have a website where each user has his/her own blog.
Some of these blogpost gets a rather long list of comments,
and I would like to move the blog post and its comments into the discussion forum.

Is there any way I can perform this task easily?

the theme box_cleanslate_smarty hasn't the "header" bar and the search box doesn't work. How to repair these items?

is there a way to show the "titles" and "date" of recent pages, actually the title would be fine, dont really need the date.

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    <div class="content"></div>
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I would like for the google map viewing options to show up in my gmap + views mashup. These viewing options display on webgeer's demo site: http://www.webgeer.com/gmapdemo but I haven't figured out how to make it happen. I'm guessing that I need to edit the contents of the [gmap...] section of the template.php file but I don't know what needs to be added.

Roger

Hi!
When I create content, say 'submit story', I have the following sections

Title
Category
Content
Input format
Authoring info
Publishing options
Comment settings
Menu settings

Now, how can I remove, say, Menu settings for users?
How can I edit, say, the comment settings options so that the user has only 'Read only' and 'Read/write' and not 'Disabled'? By default I get all three.

Thanks,
Zack