Post installation

I've got a fresh install of v4.7 running on my test server. Most everything is working fine.
I last worked on the site yesterday, and when I pulled up the site this evening, it listed
the admin account in "who's online" (even though I know I logged out).
I logged in to one of the test accounts, and then to another account from a separate
machine. Then I logged both users out via their respective browsers.
The home page says "There are currently 3 users and 1 guest online." and lists

I don't seem to be able to enable the CCK modules. After uploading the CCK folder inside my modules folder and browsing to mysite.com/admin/modules I check the checkboxes next to each module related to CCK and click 'Save Configuration.' I then get a blank page. Only after reloading do I get an error message at the top of my modules page as follows:

user warning: Table 'database.mm_node_type' doesn't exist query: SELECT * FROM mm_node_type nt ORDER BY nt.type_name ASC in full url to my site/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.

Heyo,

Lately I've been modifying the site and such, but just today I tried to login with Internet Exporer, and.. Nothing happens?

Basically, I log in with my admin account, and usually the admin features will appear in the navigation panel. Like Adminster, etc etc.

However, now, it's as if nothing happens. I try to login, but it doesn't do anything. Im getting the username and password right (otherwise I would be told, which I tested), and I get taken to the homepage, and all Im shown is the static links which everyone can see. I can't modify anything.

Maybe I don't really know what I'm doing.

I've been a drupaler for about 24 hours, the first 6 of which i spent trying to install it...

I want two columns on my front page (and maybe elsewhere): The first based on a category (health), with a list of subcategories and story headings relating to the sub categories; The second column identical but based on a different initially category (harmony)
(health & harmony, really, it all makes sense)

I want to see how to achieve the layout i want, and whether taxonomies or categories are more appropriate for my application. I don't want to commit to anything until I know what everything does, but of course I don't really know what I'm doing...

So, I've loaded both the view and insert view modules. I've installed the dashboard module.Not really sure which one to use.

I've created a dashboard post, and tried to insert some kind of code in it via the examples on the logrus website Example3 Nodes and blocks

TOP:

$nid=2;
print dashboard_get_node($nid, true, false, true); 

LEFT:

$result = db_query("select nid from {node} n ORDER by created DESC limit 3");

while ($node = db_fetch_object($result)) {
print dashboard_get_node($node->nid, true); 

So, I've embeded the example code in a php block
Is that the right thing to do?

I've got no idea what it will do... I don't know what the sql should look like (I removed the where clause). Is {node} a view?

I am trying to use the Story module to create articles for my website, that other users can build on. I cannot see an option to add a 'Most Recent Stories' block to the menu blocks. I also cannot see a place where stories can be accessed by a menu (nothing under navigation menu). I can't even seem to access them the way I do blogs(/blog), forums(/forum), polll (/poll) and there is no taxonomy entries created for them, as there is with newsletters. I am confused on whether they are integrated with 4.7/

I'm a new drupal user and I love it thus far!

I am trying to find a way to find the IP of one member of my drupal website. He is posting a lot of vulgar comments and I want to ban him completely using my host service's IP ban feature.

How do I find this person's IP? Is there a module for it? Please let me know- This noob has been looking for an answer all day with no result.

Thank you :-)