Theme development

Hello people! I've been playing a little with drupal 5 and i like it. I like very much the cck+views idea.

I modified views_theme_wizard.module to generate a third chunk of code, a stylesheet with all the divs classes used in the other two chunks generating the template php code.
It also adds a line to the xxxx.tpl.php to add the generated stylesheet.

This makes the wizard still more fun to use and easy to customize the result, not having to look at the source to find what divs are created.

I'm having a really hard time trying to figure out how to upload a theme I want to share to the CVS repository, which after 10+ hours is now rivaling learning how to compile php or apache in terms of complexity, deciphering, and the time involved.

Has anybody hard coded the user.module to pull the (x) most recent images on their profile page?

Within the user.module I see the theme_user_profile() function. Is it possible to insert a $sql query here and display the results without overriding the module?

Ideally, I would like to have the code pull the latest 5 thumbnail images on and display on their user profile page.

Hi every body, I have download the Xtemplate module, but it seem's not install & operate like another modules, How to install the Xtemplate module? Thank you very much

I want my users have rights to create new theme themselves or they can browser to a another them . How can I do that?

I am using the theme:
Internet Center

but want to remove:

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from the top of the site, entirely.

I just started using Drupal about an hour ago, so any help for a noob would be appreciated!

So far, so good.

Thanks!