Post installation

I'm using the article module to create a directory of links. You can find what I'm working on at http://community.podcastnyc.net/article . I would like an authenticated user to be able to edit an article that they've submitted but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do that. Currently only admin users can edit that articles that have been saved. I've searched the forum and haven't found what I'm looking for so assistance with this is much appreciated.

Cheers,

Hello, I was trying to get clean url’s to work on my localhost, but I keep hitting a brick wall.. I know It has to do with modrewrite and .htaccess, I read a few of the posts here on it but I just keeps confusing me. Help!?

Here’s how it stands at the moment:

.htaccess:
#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.
#
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
#

# Set some options.
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Override PHP settings. More exist in sites/default/settings.php, but
# the following cannot be changed at runtime. The first IfModule is
# for Apache 1.3, the second for Apache 2.

php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0

php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0

# Reduce the time dynamically generated pages are cache-able.

ExpiresByType text/html A1

# Various rewrite rules.

This is probably going to be the stupidest question ever posted, but I'm confused.
I have followed the installation text to the letter, I have both mysql and Apache up and running fine. My question is - now what? Typing 'localhost' into my browser brings up the Apache placeholder page, there's nothing in the installation instructions that would alter this and I can't understand why not. All there seems to be in my /var/www/ directory is a bunch of php scripts. What do I do? How do I start? Am I misunderstanding what Drupal even is??

Im very new to Drupal and have a basic question.

On the index page (mysite.com/) I get a list of all content types in the order they where made. I want to edit it so that it only shows the 'story' content.

BTW. I tried usig front_page but for some reason when I go to settings/front_page there are no options, windows or anything. Just a blank page with "array" showing. I'm still poking around so Im not sure how to fix that error.

This is a general problem in drupal, but my question is specifically about flexinode. Due to the limitations of the current profile.module, I am using flexinode for profiles and I have a profile type that has 25 fields.

The problem- I can only weight 21 and the rest get in between the carefully weighted fields and completely destroy the order.

It seems a serious oversight to limit the weighting to 21. Is there a way around?

This morning i found a spam comment on every single node on my site - the spam module didn't detect these as spam - now, how do i delete all these comments?? (other than following the delete link 10,000 times?)

There doesn't seem to be a mass comment deleter.
(or i'm lost)