Post installation

So, I've lept into drupal with a big splash, and I'm creating what is a bit of an ambitious website (for me, not by programmer/web-dude standards).

I am beginning to understand taxonomy. The latest issue: Content Types! Eek!

Needed: Some thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of creating a new Content Type as opposed to simply creating a new vocabulary or vocabulary term.

Hi, per this handbook page - http://drupal.org/node/52389 - I'd like to add a separate admin theme and front page. I'm able to do them separately, but I don't know how to get them both working simultaneously. I know that I just need to combine the 2 snippets, but I don't know how to do that. Can someone please tell me how?

The 2 snippets are...

I'd like to have a page where people can see a listing of all the user blogs on the site.

Does anyone know how to do this?

I finally fixed my Clean URLs problem, and would like to thank those of you who tried so valiantly to help (especially pulsifer), as per this thread:

http://drupal.org/node/54231

Alas, I ended up mucking my way through it as I often do. Here's how it worked out for me. No guarantees that it'll work the same for you, but hopefully you can glean something that will trigger that "aha!" moment for you:

My first issue was whether "AllowOverride" was set to "none" or "all". Since I run my own LAMP server (based on Ubuntu Linux), I had already gone through and diligently changed practically every "AllowOverride" I could find to "all" in my apache2.conf file and 000-default file (I think that one's only found in Ubuntu). But it still wasn't working. I read up just a bit on "AllowOverride" and noticed they have options for things like Indexes, Authconfig, Limits, etc. I went back to check my "AllowOverrides" again and found a second "AllowOverride" just below it! Like this:

<directory /var/www/sharedip>
    Options +Includes -Indexes
    AllowOverride all
    AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo    <this is the line I ended up commenting out to make it work
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    <files ~ "^\.ht">
    Deny from all
    </files>
</directory>

I can't believe that I missed that, but it's because I had gotten used to seeing "AllowOverride All/None", not with a bunch of other options. I have no idea why that second one was there. I also run ISPConfig, so maybe that has something to do with it. I simply commented out the second "AllowOverride" and saved the file. That was the first of what turned out to be three fixes I had to do before I could enjoy clean URLs.

I want to make a website for competitive interpretation of synastry. The Flash front end will display a chart, synastric matrix and aspect list, interlinked so that changing the selection in one changes it in all three. There are 600 possible selections, and for each one I want a stripped down forum to appear in the area not taken up by the other three widgets. So the question is, how do I customize a forum module to display in the confines left over in the Flash app? Are there skins for a forum that would allow you to define an L shaped plot of real-estate on the screen?

Flexinode allow to create content and allow a user to simply upload one image. I would like to include this part of flexinode in the blog post

Possible ?