Post installation

I guess I am going to start this thread with questions and sugesstions.

Suggestion:
I really like the ability to have complete control over what content can be available for your users. But with this content, as always, it needs design. As of version 4.5, a user profile page is really lacking design. And a profile may look something like this.

I have a Drupal 4.5.0 site installed, but can't find a way to get the configuration I want. I have several subdomains (a.example.com, b.example.com..etc) plus a main domain (www.example.com). Each subdomain has a corresponding taxonomy term (a, b..etc).

So far, I have the subdomains all 'working' using seperate config files; I have everything set the same except the base URL, so right now, they're just copies of the same site that show all content. What I want is for the subdomains to only show content from the corresponding taxonomy term (and in fact, to deny the existence of the other terms when creating content..etc so that a user using a.example.com can't accidentally submit content to term b) - much like the taxonomy permissions module, except based on the domain rather than the user role.

The reason why I can't do this using a partially shared database (my database is totally common) is because I want the main domain to be able to show any and all taxonomy terms - it has to be able to access all the content. The result would have a categorisation system very like Slashdot, where the main page shows all categories and the subdomains (apple.slashdot.org..etc) only show one category and its subcategories.

Is there a way to do this using URL rewriting? I don't want just the front page to change for each site, but all references to nodes (as with taxonomy permissions). If not, any suggestions where I should start hacking? ;)

I successfully installed the image module this afternoon. I'm running Drupal 4.5.0. I created an image gallery and then logged out and attempted to access the image gallery as an anonymous user but it gave me the access denied page. I can't figure out how to give anonymous users access to view image galleries. Anyone know what I should do. My website is at http://www.technolispeaking.com if you need to see an example. BTW, thanks to everyone who has worked on Drupal, its an amazing piece of software.

I just noticed that the frontpage has excerpts according to the admin settings . But if you use the paging links then the pages that follow have the entire node exposed the excerpt ceases to work.

Is this a bug or a feature?

I don't want all users to have to assign pictures or nodes to taxonomies.

Currently, when I add taxonomies so I can organize content, a normal user is shown the dropdowns for these taxonomies when creating content. It's very confusing for my users. So I want to be able to:
- create taxonomies and assign to nodes and images and such
- but decide myself which roles get to assign a node to a taxonomy
so that an average Joe user never sees any taxonomy dropdowns (expect maybe the one for forums).

I'd like to have each front page post numbered from 1-10, so that the most recent post always has the number 1 next to it. I'm guessing that this wouldn't be too difficult to do, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Anyone know how it could be done?