Post installation

I am trying to share the session information of drupal with other application's php pages. For testing this, I've wrote a test.php as given below.

<?php
include_once "includes/bootstrap.inc";
include_once "includes/common.inc";

print "$user->name";
?>

This php page just prints the username (if user has logged into drupal)

My installation went fine. The only problem I've come across is an error I get when I go to Administer -> Themes and I try to configure a theme or use the configure tab at the top. My setup is:

Drupal 4.6.3
PHP 5.0.5
MySQL 4.1.14
Apache 2.0.54

The error I get is:
Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in apache_document_root/drupal/modules/system.module on line 649

Not sure if this could be the problem, but I compiled PHP to use mysql not mysqli. Since I am using PHP5 with MySQL 4.1.*, does Drupal 4.6.* expect mysqli?

I must be stupid or blind - I just cant work it out...

I Have created my standard menu on the left hand side of my drupal page. Fine. Now I want to point these links to a page at the centre of my drupal page... Any page would do, but I just can't work out what I am doing wrong. for example:

I'm certain there has to be a module that does this but I am not sure of the right one.

I am looking for something where Drupal will automatically add a link to a node or external URL based on a keyword found in the text. Similar to glossary, except its just sending directly to a node or link. So if someone just said "Google" it would automatically create a link to Google, for instance. Or if I am running a site about apples and the text on the page said "fuji apple" it would go to the fuji apple node defined by me.

thanks for the help!

decon

or.... let's better phrase it.

I have 3 books on a site, and I want the 3 top pages always visible on the book block.

So far, with drupal 4.6.3, I can only see that block whem I am inside a book page.

What can I do to see it everywhere?

Thanks in advance!

There is no option to show quotes consecutively, only random. If I only have 8-10 quotes the chance is high the user gets the same quote twice in a row. Please help!