Post installation

I like websites with 3D-looking buttons, frames, banners etc. and I tried to implement these things in my theme CSS - with only partial success until now.
I.e.: I played around with background images for the sidebar blocks list tags (ul,ol,li), but while firefox renders fine, IE does its own things sometimes.
Does anybody know if there is a way to combine/convert node links of the sidebar blocks with/to graphic buttons ?

I've started a site using 4.7 beta 4. But this is the same in 4.6.

I created a story. The story has an attachment. I then added the story to the outline of a book. The resulting page places the book navigation in between the body text of the story and the attachment list. It makes the attachment look like a separate item from the story itself.

How do I change the order of these items?

In node.tpl.php, I have:

Is it possible to hide specific flexinode fields based on role?

I apologize for this but I really don't know what to call it or how to word it. I am running in to an issue that I am sure there is a way to do what I want, but I'm just not readily sure as to how or even what I would search for in the Drupal Handbooks. So I'll try here.

I have a website and I create stories and promote them to the front page and it works great. I have created a second page though and would like to be able to add a story to that page. How can I do this?

I have around 300 (and growing) users on a nonprofit network site. All users are also set up as taxonomy terms.

I am looking for a way to automatically pull out portions of profile information - profile.module fields or profiles set up using flexinode fields - and print them into blocks on the right and left side of the page or even in the main body section (using dashboard perhaps?). The profile information portion would be stuff such as 'Training Programmes Offered', 'Awards/Recognition', 'Current Projects' etc.

I've seen loads of great php snippets to display links to certain posts from certain taxonomy terms if you're on a certain page, etc. What I don't think I've yet found is something like:

"If we're on book1/chapter2/* then display titles of last 10 pages added to book2/chapter3..."

I presume that that is actually quite simple? Would it also be possible to swap "last 10" in that example for "first 5" or "random 5" or so on?