Post installation

I have 1 page (1 node) on my site that needs to be restricted to about 10 people. I only want them to be able to see it. They can all be given a common role if that's what it takes, or a password for that page.

I have looked at a few modules: Organic Groups, Simple Access, and some patches that all seem to be over-kill for hiding only one page. I hate to apply a mySQL table patch that affects every node just to protect a single page. I will not have the need to protect anything but this one node.

Well, by now I should understand taxonomy reasonably well, but I still get plenty of doubts. Here is one:

If I am creating a flexinode content type called 'Volunteer Opportunity' and want to tag it with certain terms, do I need to create the following as separate vocabularies (orthagonal view and all that) or should I put them in one vocab, with several parent terms?

Option I:
Volunteer Opportunity by duration (Vocab)
-One time
-On going
-Full time

Volunteer Opportunity by gender (Vocab)
-Male
-Female
-All

Running CivicSpace 0.8.3-rc4 on Drupal 4.6.5, I recently received a string of cron errors with messages like these:

user error: Got error 127 from storage engine
query: DELETE FROM watchdog WHERE timestamp < 1139736332 in /home/hoopblat/public_html/cs/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.

Then, when I tried to go to my site, I got a blank screen with only this:

Fatal error: Can't open file: 'cache.MYI' (errno: 145) query: SELECT data, created, headers FROM cache WHERE cid = 'variables' in /home/hoopblat/public_html/cs/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66

I went in to phpMyAdmin and ran a check on my db, which shown numerous problems. I ran a db repair and everything is working okay again.

Questions:

1. What do these errors mean?
2. I'm running mailhandler/listhandler, so I had set Cron to run cron.php every 2 minutes. Could that frequency have caused these problems? I've since set Cron to run cron.php every 15 minutes. Is that a good setting?
3. On my administer|settings page, "Discard access logs older than:" was originally set to "3 days", and it was at about that time (from installation) that these errors appeared. I have since set it to "4 weeks" to delay having the problem again until I can get this resolved. Is this the setting that triggers the events that caused the errors? What is a safe setting?

Thanks.

I've installled the gallery2 module and the applications itself...
everything is working fine.

Now, I've a bunch of roles on the drupal side... How do I enforce
permissions on the gallery side using these roles ?

How do I put a story and a forum topic (or forum container, if possible) linked to it on one page?

Is it possible to enable access for users to register with the site and then only have access to the forums while the site is in offline mode?

The reason I ask is that I am still developing my site, but while it is in offline mode I wanted to be able to allow users to register and then be able to use the forums so that they can have some sort of interaction with the website while it is still being developed. I do not want these new users to be able to see any of the other content once logged in. Perhaps there would be a redirect to the forums with the front page module?