Post installation

I'm accessing Drupal nodes outside of the Drupal framework, within my own code...

How do I find out the category of a node ? What's the special node information fetching function ? I guess i should know this by now :s .

Thanks in advance !

Marcel
http://drupalhacks.com

If I use the standard Drupal .htaccess file, my non-drupal subdomain site ceases to function - the parameters passed to index.php are always empty. (I reset empty parameter to 1 in my code, so only the home page ever shows)

http://www.comformark.com.au/index.php?pagetocall=3

I'm sure someone has already asked this question but I can't find it. My apologies if I missed it.

I've just installed drupal-4.6.3 and everything looks good.

Using the SEARCH box/button, however, returns "The requested URL /search was not found on this server." The web address box displays 'http://www.mysite.org/search' (note that it doesn't use the '?q=').

I've installed URL filter and Tiny MCE. I feel like at one point, my URL filter was working and posts would automatically have links. Now, tho, if someone puts in an url, it just shows up as text instead of a link. The whole bit of "link" "unlink" via the tiny MCE interface is causing some users difficulty. Any advice on how to make it automatic? Thanks!

dot tar files give me the creeps.
why don't people make plain .zip files familiar to everybody.
i want to install a personal messenger. how can i get it in .zip form?

I am using an include function to display real estate listings on my site and I have pages that work fine outside of drupal, but when I include them they lose all functionality. I'm sure it's something simple.... i'm still pretty new at this programming bit ;)

You can see the list that is working here: http://sanluisrealtor.studiocreek.com/real_estate_test.php?City=san%20lu...