Post installation

A blog I frequent has recently moved from MT to Drupal and, while I am impressed by the layout of the new site, there is a minor problem with the feed.

Every time a new article is added to the blog, the RSS data page is updated to include the article in its entirety. This means that, when I hover above a new title on my newsreader, I end up with a tooltip box containing the entire article, instead of just the first paragraph or two. As I am unable to scroll a tooltip box, only the latter part of the article appears on my screen.

I'm interested in using htmlarea for inputting documents which my users prepare using MS-Word, and I have a problem with the way HTMLarea handles the copy/paste and the "printer-friendly" output.

My users prepare documents using MS-Word, then copy/paste the whole document directly into HTMLarea

If I have the line-break converter switched OFF, then when I paste into HTMLarea I loose all the line breaks in the Word document - ie the formatting is completely messed up.

In the theme configuration there's the possibility to toggle the mission statement, just like the navegation, phrase, etc., however, I don't have the option in create content>page to set a piece of content as the mission statement. This is not available in the theme settings either.
I've read posts about how to ad the mission to the front page, but I'm still lost as to how to ad the content. Only thing I have is sticky, but that's not the same thing.
Is there a module I'm missing?
I'm using drupal 4.5

Thanks

Hi guys I want to start and say I love Drupal i moved from a phpnuke setup to drupal and i love it but there is one thing i cant get to work ..

my site offers msn alerts to send top stories to members msn messengers through our rss feed but

http://www.betageeks.com/node/feed

does not seem to work how can i get this url to work is there a full url string like

http://www.betageeks.com/node/feed/rss.xml or index.rss ect...

I need to create some read only profile fields. ONe that is public, and one that only the user sees. any ideas how to do this?

How can I, as a non-admin user, access a list of all the nodes I have authored? I'm enivisioning something like this on the menu:

• my content
  • pages
  • forum topics
  • stories
  • ...

How can I do this? If I need to write a module, where can I start? (I haven't done any drupal coding before)

Thanks!