Post installation

I've been having a helluva time for at least a couple of weeks because the email on my Drupal system wasn't working. It turns out to be a really simple fix.

Be warned though: I run my own LAMP server and you have to have access to your php.ini file (which most webhosting accounts apparently don't). Also, I have no idea whether this solution conforms with Drupal "best practices" or not...I just wanted to get the email system working and wasn't too worried about crossing t's and dotting i's. If the way I've done this violates some server admin's sense of how to properly do things then there's no point in giving me grief about it now. I posted asking for help several times on this issue and no one helped, so this is my own kludgy, duct taped version of a solution. I welcome any better answers, though:

This is what I did:

1. Edit my php.ini file on my Linux server (I use Ubuntu and found it at /etc/php5/cli/php.ini yours will almost certainly vary)

2. Find the entry that reads:
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

3. I changed "localhost" to my mailserver's name (smtp.mailserver.com or you can even use your ISPs mailserver, as an example: smtp.secureserver.net)

4. Save the file, and it works.

My Drupal will now send email to me as admin, allows me to send email to users, and will send new users email when they sign up...all things I couldn't do until now.

I'm sure this is a dumb question, but I've searched here and Google and can't find an answer. I want to install the Bluemarine theme for Phptemplate, but obviously I can't have two subdirectories named Bluemarine (Xtemplate version and Phptemplate version) in the "Themes" directory.

So do I rename the Phptemplate Bluemarine directory (e.g., BluemarinePhp) or do I delete the Xtemplate Bluemarine directory?

I'm using Drupal both for my private site and my work site. What I would like to do is to have a content type that is suitable reference publishing, that is it should be easy to enter information into a number of fields (preferable similar to the fields BibTeX use) and get it to be formatted in some nice way.

I haven't found anything that seems to be able do this but I've perhaps missed something?

(note: I don't want a publishing system for articles etc, I'm only interested in the references)

I would like to create landing page with no primary or secondary links at top.
Is this possible?

Thanks,
JR

I am a new, inexperience user of Drupal (or any CMS, for that matter), trying to fill-in for our previous administrator who just left, so please forgive my ignorance.

MY question regards the use of a form and javascript inside a custom block.

I just tried to make a simple change to a custom block I am using in the left side-bar of one of my pages. The block contains a simple form with Javascript that sends the user to an off-site results page.

Images do not show in node pages. Also counters in node pages, viewers counters, do not show.

Thanks