Post installation

I installed and enabled the glossary module following the directions in the README, which said that I should associate the glossary with a taxonomy, and that the option would be available in Administer > Configuration > Filters. There is a block at the bottom of that page that says:

I'm having a devil of a time here. I'm trying to use the polls module, but I seem to have a problem with the polls closing within about an hour of when I set them up. I typically set them to close in "one week," but they close up far more quickly. I tried looking at the database; the poll and poll_choices tables seem intact. Any ideas on where I should go, what I should look for to fix this?

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http://www.pennywit.com

Is the "reads" counter (usually at the bottom of most nodes) supposed to indicate a kind of unique hits counter? If not, is there anything setup that I can use for such functionality?

I've searched every combo of strings I can think of but can't figure this out. How do I get drupal to show more stories on the front page? TIA.

Hey folks,

I'm completely floundering here...very out of my depth, on a very steep learning curve. This site is meant to be live tomorrow (today, strictly speaking) *worried look*

I have an external script that redirects users back into my drupal site. It sends along some info in the query string, and when it does, drupal complains that the page doesn't exist. E.g.:

.../announce/invalid?address=wer&name=234

The user started on the /announce page to sign up for an email list and the script bounced them out to the invalid page, helpfully adding the params from the form. The script is provided by my hosting provider so I can't make any changes there.