Post installation

Okay....I have no idea what Drupal is and I don't even know if I'm on a site that can help me or not, but I'm going to try anyway. :) I appreciate any help I can get.

I am extremely new to PHP and all I want to do is submit form data in plain text to an email. I have the jist of it, but the one problem I'm having is getting the data entered in the form fields to transfer to the email. I have all the field names in the email, but the data is not there.

I'm having trouble with editing pages with path aliases.

I have a page that is aliased to arts/dance. When I click on edit, the link directs me to

http://mysite.com/arts/node/73/edit

WHat i really mean here is there any modules or examples of php blocks that "know" what node it's looking at, and can pull up related content? Let's say for example I have a node about cats, and i want to have a bunch of cat photos associasted to that node, and to show up in a block, how would i do this?

It seems that blocks are defined from the get-go to be quite separate from nodes, but visually this is often not the case, where sidebar content supplements node content.

I hope this makes some sense, if anybody has done this before or have ideas, let me know.

Especially on the front page, but on any listing that may get sticky posts on top, it is a problem when sticky posts fill the front page, so that one has to scroll down to see if there are any new posts or not...

It would at least be useful if the sticky posts had a "sticky" symbol like the sticky forum topics have.

But even more elegant would be if there was a way of defining how many new posts should show up _above_ the sticky posts.

Is this possible?

Thank you:-)

I need a module that gives easy overview on which taxonomy terms are rarely used, which combinations are mostly used (suggests menu entries), etc.

Has someone allready made something like this?

How do I make the breadcrumbs on

http://drupal.financialcharting.com/index.php?q=node/35026

look like the breadcrumbs on

http://drupal.financialcharting.com/index.php?q=myArticle/Days+To+Amaze/...