Post installation

I installed the New Aggregator module a few weeks ago (the version I installed matches my drupal version) and everything works fine. I can add sources, it pulls from sources and displays everything proplery, however, the update feature doesn't work. I have it set to update every 15 mins yet it isn't updating, yet I can manually update each feed, though I don't want to have to do this everyday. Any ideas?

Some ahole just flooded my comments with ads for his lowlife company. Dozens of ads now show up in my recent comments and I'm sickened by this. How do I block his IP and any comments with keywords from showing up in comments, short of shutting down comments?
Thanks.

I'm trying to create a block which will display the most recently added flexinode in a certain taxonomy term. The flexinode should be formatted so that it can be output using the usual <?php print check_output($flexinode->flexinode_field); ?> syntax.

Some people have done similar things, as at drupal.org/node/23231 or drupal.org/node/32272. However, nobody seems to deal with the peculiarities of the flexinode system, preferring to output the standard node fields (ie <?php print check_output($node->teaser); ?>).

Here's some code to give a more concrete idea of what I'm trying to do. Note the comments in the get_recent_flexinode() function.

<?php
  function get_recent_flexinode($tid) {
    /** a miracle occurs **/
    /** return most recent flexinode in the taxonomy term $tid  **/
    return $flexinode;
  }
  $flexinode = get_recent_flexinodes($flexinode_type, $tid, 1);
?>  

<div class="flexinode-field-1"><?php print check_output($flexinode->flexinode_1); ?></div>
<div class="flexinode-field-2"><?php print check_output($flexinode->flexinode_2); ?></div>

Extra credit to the person who can expand the <?php get_recent_flexinode($tid) ?> function to allow the specification of specific node types and to allow the function to return more than one node (for example <?php get_recent_flexinode($tid, $type, $list_length) ?>.

How do I get sublinks for my categories as shown here?:

http://drupal.org/project

Where it has the "Themes" "Modules" "Translations" pages?

Thank you.

I'm running 4.6.2 and for some reason when people are accessing uploaded files, the log is saying "page not found" even though they are accessing it with no problem. Why is this happening and what could be causing this?

If you go to my site:

http://www.firmbit.com

you will see that the main table has borders even though I have the borders all set to 0. Borders still show up. How do I completely rid of these borders?

PS: I'm using the SpreadFireFox Theme.