Post installation

I have 2 catagories for polls. I would like to show each catagory in its own block. I installed taxonomy block and it does show the newest poll in each catagory.
The only difference is there a way I can get the poll options to show up like they do in the normal poll block? Maybe there is a way I can change the taxonomy block to show the actual poll instead of the link?

Thanks

How can the block heading 'Popular content' be changed to read 'Popular items'?

Anybody else having that trouble with pathauto module? Any way to fix it? Or am I stuck with it?

Does anyone know how to print out custom profile fields for use inside a blog teaser on the main page. I just want this to appear right after the print $submitted statement. Being new to PHP, im not sure if i should use print $user->profile_company .

Also, if I could add a new variable to the $submitted array within the PHPtemplate.engine file, that would be great as well.

This is the area of PHPTemplate.engine where I think the new variables should go:

$variables = array(
'content' => ($teaser && $node->teaser) ? $node->teaser : $node->body,
'date' => format_date($node->created),
'links' => $node->links ? theme('links', $node->links) : '',
'name' => theme('username', $node),
'node' => $node, // we pass the actual node to allow more customization
'node_url' => url('node/'. $node->nid),
'page' => $page,
'taxonomy' => $taxonomy,
'teaser' => $teaser,
'terms' => theme('links', $taxonomy),
'title' => check_plain($node->title)
);

// Flatten the node object's member fields.
$variables = array_merge((array)$node, $variables);

// Display info only on certain node types.
if (theme_get_setting('toggle_node_info_' . $node->type)) {
$variables['submitted'] = t('Submitted by %a on %b.', array('%a' => theme('username', $node), '%b' => format_date($node->created)));

I have made a flexinode with a teaser on the front page, but I have trouble with how to only have a link to "more text" if there really is more text.

I have figured out that whether there is more text is determined in node.module (in function node_teaser)
- but how do I carry a variable over to my theme/node.tpl.php?

I am using 4.6 and phptemplate engine.

I have a large site that I just moved from shared to VPS. My VPS went down and fast. Drupal a heavy load on MySQL. I can't access my site via web browser. What changes should I make and how can I make those changes without browser access to my site? I hace FTP access if that helps.