Post installation

Drupal will take certain RSS feeds and start chopping spaces, and/or adding spaces to the content text!! For example, if you look at this feed:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/rss/tucker

The RSS feed is fine and the content is fine...but when Drupal reads it over, it screws up the text. "How we're" becomes "Howwe're" and "create an" becomes "createan".

Am I the only one having this problem? This seems pretty serious...

I moved my MT blog to Drupal and have got it pretty much set up how I want it. I used James Seng's great MT 2 Drupal script to move my MT entries into my Drupal blog. It all worked great and without a problem.

That is until I turned on clean URLs. When I did this I noticed that whenever I went to a post that was created in MT it brought up just an html page, the one that MT had originally created. If I turn Clean URLs off, it works fine. The only difference is that when I have Clean URLs disabled the link to the archive looks like this: http://blog.aranami.net/?q=archives/001007.html while when clean URLs are enabled it looks like this: http://blog.aranami.net/archives/001007.html, which is the same link but just without that ?q= thing. When I went and looked at the actual archives that were transferred from MT (which are in an "archives" directory) they are just the pages that were created by MT, just now without any of the styles that they had before (since I deleted MT from my server).

So, my question is, is this a problem with my Clean URLS (maybe in the .htaccess or something), or is it something with the MT 2 Drupal script? Has anybody else used this script and had a similar problem? It doesn't seem like the archives were actually imported since all of the html files that MT had created are still there. I'd like to have Clean URLs enabled with all of my archives, but if I do that they all look really bad because they are the old MT created html files. Why does having that "?q=" in the URL make it look like it's suppossed to in Drupal, but without it it looks like the old MT page? Is there anyway to get rid of these old MT made html pages and have them actually moved into Drupal?

I've tried to install a forum like the one on http://drupal.org/ but it won't work. I've enabled the forum module, but I can't make it work. When I look on the hyperlink this page it links to "http://drupal.org/forum". When I install the forum module it links to "drupal/?q=forum". How do I setup a forum like this one.

What is the difference between a page node and a story node? On the surface, they don't appear to have different features. Am I missing something and they are different in a way I don't see?

Is it in the usage? A page is more of a static element and a story is more temporary? Or does it have to do with hierarchy?

Any clarification would be much appreciated, thank you.

-- Kendra

Ok, i really posting alot of stuff here. I'm having trouble with a search being put on my site. I'm just gonna use the one that comes with drupal but it never appears, and it's enabled and configured right. I'm using the chameleon/marvin theme. A friend of mine is using the marvin 2k theme and his search appears, but as soon as he changes the theme to chameleon, it disappears on his site. I was wondering if anyone else has run into this issue and what they did to fix it. Thanx! I really appreciate all the help you guys are giving!

Is there a way without hacking themes to generate a list of nodes (by taxonomy) similar in format to the way tracker lists entires (date/author/title)? I am thinking along the lines of a classifieds listing Compact list by date, no descriptions). Help?