Post installation

I've just discovered drupal and I'm thrilled. Finally a simple, intuitive CMS I can use to get projects developed _fast_. I'm begining to get a sense of how powerful and useful taxonomies are, and I'm curious what the best way to go about implementing a certain type of navigation is.

The site(very alpha, structure only) I'm currently working on is based on a pretty simple navigation model: first tier links along the top bring up different submenus to the left of the content block. The taxonomy_context module seemed perfect for this. I've made a vocabulary for navigation that mirrors my nav structure (first-level terms are the same as the first-tier navigation items), and for those navigation items that are more than 2 levels deep, I've constructed child terms to those (see Publications->books). Then pages can be assigned to whatever section they need to be displayed in and the nav is constucted automatically.

The only problem is the restrictions on how the taxonomy_context module orders the items in the menu block: child terms are always put ahead of nodes with the given category and nodes are always oredered by creation date, which makes sense in most cases but I'd like more control...some sort of weight implementation or something along those lines. I took a look at the module code and it doesn't seem like it would be too hard to add a few more options to how the items are ordered, but before I started in on that I wanted to check with community and see if anyone had any insights into how to best accomplish my goal within drupal's existing featureset.

I'm using Drupal to power a fairly popular website about drag racing, http://www.norwalkraceway.com One of the user's favorite features is the personal photo gallery aspect of image.module. Sice I enabled it, many users have created their own personal photo galleries. However for other people to view these galleries, the task is quite dificult. They have to look at "Recent Posts" to see the personal images other people have added.

Hi, I'm a real newbie to Drupal. Is there a way to show articles for a certain day only? I can view articles if I know the id from node table in the DB through this
http://localhost/public/drupalNew/?q=node/view/9 (if my the article I want to display has a node id of "9"), but how should the url look like if I want to show articles of a certain date only. There could be more than one article for a single day. Can anyone give me a hint? I'd really appreciate any help.

I made a fresh installation of Drupal 4.4.1.(But this should also be true for 4.4.0)

I published some nodes (blog, page, story) with german Umlaute promoted on frontpage.
Switching on cache support results in incorrect diplay of Umlaute when logged out (that means as anonymous user), but correct display of Umlaute when logged in.
I am able to force Drupal to a correct/incorrect display of Umlaute by switching on/off cache support.
Is this a bug?
How to change this?

Ok... I give up...

Can someone help me? I am trying to setup the avatar module and I cannot get the "files" folder configured right.

I have created a directory under my drupal root called files and gave it permissions 755 and left all of the settings to their default value. I just need to know what the correct way to set this up would be. It's not documented very well (I can't find anything about the file system settings in the handbook) and I only found one relevant post about with the search and it just suggested that it should be documented.

When I go to my webpage http://www.stensandvall.se/sten/ as guest not logged in all the text looks like this

It´s written in Swedish