Post installation

I am looking far a iCal/Calendar app that can be integrated into drupal for a community website i am finalising (unpaid). I want to integration to include a 'latest/recent events' block and have this link to a node.

I had installed WebCalendar externally, though have recently found PHP iCalendar which is a lot more aesthitcally pleasing and i have seen in integrated into some cms sites. I have also come across reference to a number of others.

Well, I love the module! makes very nice dropdown menus. with a little css tweaking I think it can do and look like anything. (Kudu's to the coders)

I do have a small issue.

HDI make the child menus go on top of my sidebars and content? (using modified friends electric, and drupal 4.7.b5)

(http://drupal.totaldestruction.us) if you go to the menu item on the far right, (blogs) see how it drops behind the right side bar. Any Ideas? and can it be done in the css?

Thanks

Guy

I am using a node_form function in my template.php in order to lay a node form that i have customized out properly. I would really like to write a bunch of checkboxes in a table. how do i combine form_render and theme_table to do that?

Why do I need to have a prefix for my database tables on a multi-site install?

In my settings.php I have this:

$db_prefix = array(
  'default' => 'main_',
  'attachment' => 'shared_',
  'authmap' => 'shared_',
  'banner' => 'shared_',
  'banner_term' => 'shared_'

What will break or not work if I didn't use prefixes and still had multiple sites?

I seriously doubt if anyone here can help with this, but I just can't get clean URLs working on my Drupal install.

I'm running my own LAMP server (Ubuntu Linux, Apache2, MySQL, PHP) and I think I've done what I'm supposed to do to get mod_rewrite running on my Apache server (according to my post on the Ubuntu Forums here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=144782), but every time I put the default .htaccess into my Drupal directory, my website goes down.

I've been looking at drupal for a while, but am still a newbie. I'd like some advice on the best option for what I'm trying to do with my site. I suspect the setup I'm looking for is fairly common.

I want my main pages to be just stories, posted only by an "editor" role, but allowing all authenticated users to comment or contribute to forums. "Normal" users will be in groups, and should only be able to post new content within their own groups.

I know that there is experimental code to let node_access and taxonomy_access work with organic groups, but I'm not sure how stable it is. Is that my only option? Am I missing some simple way to restrict creation of new content (not including comments or forum topics) on non-group pages? It seems to be everyone-or-no-one in og.

For a related problem elsewhere in the forums someone suggested copying modules for content types (like story) and having them there twice, under another module name and content type, and restricting access by the new content type. Would that really work? It seems to me that the exclusivity of access methods would mess this up as well, even if it would
otherwise work.

I wonder if some kind of multi-site scenario might work, as long as the users don't see it as two different sites. Or maybe the main site could be a special kind of group somehow disguised to not look like one?

These are all ideas I'm pursuing, but if those of you with drupal experience could help me pick the easiest-to-implement direction, I'd appreciate it very much!