Post installation

I've got a site to build that will have both English and French content. I'm wondering how other people have dealt with the problem of having content in two languages.

I've thought of setting up two different hosts
english.hostname.ca
francais.hostname.ca
and just having two sites with similar themes, but no real connection at a database level.

I've also considered making a new livre_module that I could put my french content in and having clever block showing/hiding so different users would only see the appropriate navigation.

I would like to have a block that displays the latest comments, almost like the admin comments page but just displaying new comments with links to them.

Does anyone know how to build this block?

Sorry if this is a redundant post, but I can't figure out what the current status on the search module. I've just installed 4.3.2 and finished setting up all my content, but the search module doesn't return any results. I navigated to cron.php in my browser and tried to search again, but that had no effect. Is the search feature broken? If not, what should I be doing to build the search index for my site?

TIA,

Mac

Can anyone point me to a site with a properly functioning catalog module? I can't tell whether I am having a problem, or whether my catalog module is behaving as it should. Here's what I encounter:

1) No name is shown in administer/configuration/modules, just a very verbose description
-- I fixed the "no name" by placing $system["name"] = t("catalog"); in catalog_system function,
-- I fixed the "verbose description" by eliminating the "if else" statement in catalog_help

I have drupal 4.3.2 on gentoo linux, and have a few post setup queries. By and large most stuff I seem to have sussed, but a few things have me stumped.

1. when drupal sends out the email to new members, it sends a blank from and reply-to addresses. This causes many spam blockers to mark the messages as spam viz spamassasin:

SPAM: Content analysis details: (6.5 hits, 6 required)
SPAM: Hit! (4.3 points) Reply-To: is empty
SPAM: Hit! (2.2 points) From: has a malformed address

I cannot find where to change this, I suspect php.ini (phpinfo() tells me that sendmail_from is blank). However if i change it there won't it affect any other php stuff i do? where do i change php.ini stuff so its just local to drupal?

2. i originally copied the untarred drupal tarbal to my htdocs root per the instructions, ending up with a dir at htdocs/drupal-4.3.2/ After a bit of fiddling I decided I'd be better to move it to a folder relecting the sitename I wanted so i renamed it to htdocs/cagc/ . I also at around the same time changed the $base_url from "http://localhost/drupal-4.3.2" to "http://my.domain.org/cagc" This all works fine apart from two things:

A. the links "edit primary links" and "edit secondary links" still point to an url starting http://localhost/drupal-4.3.2/ instead of http://my.domain.org/cagc

B. the emails being sent out to new users are getting sent with urls with the same error, which is damn all use for telling the new user where to log in.

Debianplanet uses drupal, and it can show different icons according to the category of the story. I've looked around about this feature in the administration section and can't find any hint. Is this a debianplanet-only feature that's added by their admin?