Post installation

How can you access a user's permissions within php as you can can there user id and name via $user->uid and $user->name respecitvely? I want to be able to check their permissions to hide certain fields.

I am having some security issues that the attachments module seems to address, but when I installed the filemanager and the attachment modules, I now see no option for attaching anything when I edit a node. I did check the access control and my user-type does have access to add attachments. Please help.

I'm working on a political blog, and I'm stumped on how to organize the Taxonomy.

Does anyone know of a good Taxonomy for a political blog that I can look to for guidance?

Thanks in advance.

I'm sorry if I can't explain it totally right...

Remember how in drupal 4.6 you could make Secondary links or Primary links "administer > themes > secondary links"

In theses boxes you where able to supply some html code, but now using the "menus" link, I can make secondary links or primary links, but the thin "Title" field does not accept any html code.

I tried to edit the CSS file in bluemarine folder, some success. I could change the color, and size. But I want the text in BLACK and be surrounded in a YELLOW colored block.

In 4.6 I used this code.

Does anyone know how to do (or if you can do) the following:

I have a multisite installation serving multiple commercial customers - let's say:

www.customer1.com
www.customer2.com
www.customer3.com
...
www.customer500.com

When I click on admin--> settings --> upload, I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: form_textfield() in /home/virtual/site43/fst/var/www/html/modules/upload.module on line 33
Any ideas?
Thanks,
J