Post installation

hi. (i posted this in theme development and now realize that i probably should have posted it here instead.)

i have seen some posts about theming different node types but while some of the explanations refer to the 4.3.x theme system, others that DO deal with 4.4.x don't seem to explain it in enough detail for me to get it to work.

can someone post a way to have various nodes display different attributes?

under 4.4 my forum topics show in the forum topics block on teh side bar. but when i go to the forms link on the menu I get a blank page. How do I get it to work like drupal.org?
Thanks
Ron

stupidly, i messed up my code somehow in either node.module, page.module, or user.module, or some combination. so, now i cannot change "anonymous" user settings in permissions. i can change the settings by clicking on "access content" and so on, and the database registers the changes, but somehow the information is not being retrieved and implemented. "anonymous" users see the "page not found" message unless they log in.

stupidly, i messed up my code somehow in either node.module, page.module, or user.module, or some combination. so, now i cannot change "anonymous" user settings in permissions. i can change the settings by clicking on "access content" and so on, and the database registers the changes, but somehow the information is not being retrieved and implemented. "anonymous" users see the "page not found" message unless they log in.

There has been talk about recent stories block: http://drupal.org/node/view/3754 but I would like to have similar block as is the recent posts page but without the type, author and last post column. The thing is that I want to list also new comments. Is that possible with version 4.3.2?

Thanks

first i thank all drupal developer for this very good cms.
I did test some other cms like postnuke, mambo, xoops & xaraya but didn´t find my cms till i installed drupal.

Excuse me for my bad english.

I want to create three sites in the next time.
First site will be an electronic studio community.
Users must have the possibility to add own articles & very important own Worx ( audio / video / design )!