Post installation

Hi everybody i got my website running with no problems at all i even install a few modules like image etc.. but there are some modules like buddy list, image assit, shazamgallery,chat box and others, they come with a database file i'm going to use shazamgallery as an example .

I'm using cpanel and i set up my drupal website with fantastico trough the cpanel menu, i "manage my database with my sql and phpmyadmin" quotes because i don't really know hot to managed them : )

1.-Do i create a new database or load my drupal database already created and import the new file on this case "shazamgallery.mysql" and how do i do that this is the name of my database "abinadid_drpl1"

2.- when i go to phpmyadmin i have to blocks with information i don't know how to create or import or load a database
block 1
MySQL
Create new database
No Privileges (i think won't let me create or import databases idon't know)
Show processes
Character Sets and Collations
Storage Engines
Databases
Export
Log out

block 2
phpMyAdmin
Language
Language Info:
MySQL charset
MySQL connection collation
Theme / Style:
phpMyAdmin documentation
Official phpMyAdmin Homepage
[ChangeLog] [CVS] [Lists

3.- On the installation file of image-assit is telling me thisthis is anothe example of my problem
1. Place the entire img_assist directory into your Drupal modules/

I'm working with Drupal 4.6.5 and trying to develop a custom login module. I have a separate database (MS SQL, ugh) with 70000+ members who need access to a members-only section of the site. I'd like to do the following:

* Have members sign on with their old username and password (form our other, much more poorly-executed, CMS)
* Have them not have to use @oldserver.com in the username
* Have a Drupal id created for them (again, without the @oldserver.com tagged on)
* Pull one other piece of data from the old server (a Membership Number that we use in MS SQL) and populate some field (either the "init" field in the users table (unless this is a really bad idea) or a custom profile field -- doesn't matter) so I have an easy way to refer to the member when performing SQL queries against the MS server.

I've managed to munge together something that sort of works as long as I don't try to strip the server information form the username -- at that point things fall apart. Of corse, I'm new enough with Drupal that I might not be doing something correctly.

So, are there other modules that do similar things that I can use as a reference? Has anyone created any custome code to do one or more of the above things? Or do you just have any ideas how I might go about it?

I've done some pretty lengthy searching of this site and the drupaldocs site. I've got the basics in place, but I really want to have this be seamless for our users (we went through a site upgrade last year before was hired on and the software package the previous folks bought just doesn't cut it and needs to be dumped, and I'd prefer the users not have to go through another "site revision" fiasco).

Using Drupal 4.6.5, I have taxonomy_menu installed (very nice) and I'm buildinga hierarchical web site for a non-profit.

Inside the web site, I need to put stuff together like this:

• Home
  
  
  
  • About Us
    
  • Projects
    
    • Projects we did in the past
      
      • Project 1
        • People involved with project 1
        • Photos of Project 1

      • Project 2
        • People involved with project 2
        • Photos of Project 2

Only the index page on my site is working when you click on any link you get a server 404 (not a Drupal 404). I contacted my host via email but no response yet, I asked if they were doing anything to the servers (maintenance, updates, etc.) that could cause the site to behave like this but they have not responded yet. I uploaded a backup of the MYsql to see if it would fix the problem but it didn't work.

I've been developing a drupal site. I'm a designer by experience, but I've been teaching myself php/mysql in the process.

I just discovered the devel module and found to my shock that some pages are running over 100 queries per page call! I know the cache will help this, but that only works, as I understand it, with users not logged in.

The site I'm working on should have many thousands of visitors a day and hundreds of users logged in at once.

What's wrong when only the admin has permissioin to submit nodes. The only thing a user can do is to submit comments. I've checked 'access control' so that users do have permission to submit (for example forum posts).

As a user trying to submit I get: