Deprecated - Drupal core

I just went into Track and one of my Posts is displaying down the entire page over and over again. Same date and time ... duped at least 15 times

I made patch for something my client finds very important. It does not affect the working of Drupal, it only makes it more configurable. With every upgrade of Drupal I would need to apply it again unless it is included in the head. I submitted it here: http://drupal.org/node/16299. Is this the right place that it would be included in the head? I don't have CVS access. Would small patches like this justify CVS access?

Is there an easy way to alter the position/spacing of form fields created with the form_* functions? If there is, I'm not seeing it.

Case in point, I would like to have a drop-down list positioned right beside a textbox. Or a checkbox come immediately after a textbox (on the same line). Or an address (street,city,state,zip) fields all positioned to look like an address (city,state,zip on one line) with a single title and description.

Anyone see an easy way to allow that without getting overly complex?

Cheers,
John

I have Drupal 4.5.1 using Opera 7.54u1 on Win 98SE. Clicking buttons "Save Settings" or "Moderate Comments" results in endless page loading. The submitted settings actually do get changed, but after 8 minutes with DSL, I figure it's not ever going to stop on it's own. I tested on Firefox and no problem there.

Sorry if I have posted this to wrong place.

Is there any way to get search results to include titles and/or taxonomy terms? I find some reference to this from a couple of years ago, but nothing recent.

I have created a site for a nonprofit group. Their major event all year is a festival. I have taxonomy terms with the word festival, I have numerous node titles with the word festival, yet when I do a search, nothing is found. I even tried an url alias "festival" but a search brings up nothing.

I have developed some Drupal sites
and I realized what the worst thing in Drupal is
that it is impossible to override modules functionality without modifying module source code.

For example, I need use my own taxonomy engine (not stored in Drupal database),
but I want themes and all modules work with it like with standard drupal taxonomy.

I would like to code some functions like
taxonomy_get_childen, taxonomy_get_parents etc.
and have my custom taxonmy ready to use.