Post installation

I have recently gotten Drupal to work on my laptop, using the Zend Interactive Development Environment (with debugger), and Microsoft's IIS server. I'm working in this way because the Zend debugger requires a host-based debugging routine that my shared hoster will not load for me, but since I've headed down this path, I also can do development while I'm at my daughter's soccer game :)

How do I get threaded forums (like on the drupal main site)? The forum information in the handbook doesn't cover nesting, and when I've messed around with it, I got the darker bars to show up but they were seperate from the acual forums. So my question is - How do I create a nested form, given I already have some forums working? Optionally, I can start from scratch.

Thanks In Advance,
-todd[1]

How do I change what columns show up in the members module?
All the users on my website are Authenticad users so there really is no use for the Role column for me.

Any way to custom choose which columns show up?

I'm currently playing around with a test site to see how well Drupal would suit our purposes. One thing is confusing me though: as far as I can see, only the administrator has access to the template choice of a particular theme. I would have thought that the templating system would allow for great convenience for end users (e.g. multiple identical templates available for use, just small things changed upon request like font size/type, logos/images etc). However, it appears to me that only one template can be selected globally for the site at a time.

To make the page show up in the navigation links, enter the name of the link, otherwise leave blank.
the forgoing text appears under Link Name: in the page to edit content..
I have entered the name of the link but it doesn't show up in the navigation links.. which I assume is the block of links which includes "administer" "create content" "recent posts" etc.. am I right .. should these links show up there? if not, then where are the "navigation links" referenced in the above statement?
thanks

I have about 200 text documents that I would like to import into my drupal site..
is there any way to do this fast?
ie can I somehow move the directory containing the documents into my drupal site and index it or add it en masse?
I am using drupal 4.4.0 php 4.3.6
thanks