Post installation

I'm not sure how to do the following in Drupal:

I have a list page (which basically displays a list of all the node of a specific content type). I would like, right before that list, to have an Introductory text. How can I achieve this?

It would look like this:

####################
[Page title]

[Introduction text, i.e "Hello! This is the section where you can read stories of other people."]

[Node list begins here]
[1st node teaser]
[2nd node teaser]
[3rd node teaser]

Hi,

I need to allow all members of a particular role to create user accounts. I can give the role permission to administrate users, but this also gives access to other parts of the administration UI that I don't want to allow - e.g. access control.

Is there a way to do this? I don't mind modifying the code if someone could point me in the right direction!

Cheers,
G.

Running Drupal 4.6.2 on my site cancercast.com

Very low load of hits.

Twice in a week it has returned this error message:

Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/cancerc/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31
Too many connections

The first time it was down 3 days, and I couldn't figure it out. I sent in a support question to my service provider and they never replied but it magically started working again the next day.

Is it possible to have it so that each user blog has their own subdomain?

instead of site.com/user/username, is it possible to make it so that its username.site.com?

I'm sure this has been covered before, but I cannot seem to find it anywhere. I was in the middle of coding this myself when I realized that someone else may have done the work for me.

Anyway, i want the user to put in their password when the account is created. I do NOT want a email sent with an encrypted password. A number of my users are behind strict firewalls that won't receive emails from drupal. As a result half of the users cannot get passwords once they register. The only solution is to have them enter the password when they create the account.

If you check out my sites news sections, you will see that the news section does not look good.

http://www.financecanny.com/aggregator

The date of the feeds covers the time of the feed. Looks very bad. Does anyone know how to fix this?