Theme development

For the life of me I can't figure this one out.

Information such as author, date, category, etc appear on a post's page by itself. However when the post is on the front page, that information is not present.

Is this information coded in separate places?

i have an image in my theme's "images" directory .. is there a function that will return the path to that image, so the image shows up in all views of my drupal site? I thought there was one, but reading the docs has not turned it up

Anyone developing theonion theme? I love their theme.

Hi all,
I want to display the comments in an ordered list (<ol>). Each comment should be wrapped in a list item which I want to have alternate classes, e.g. <li class="odd"> and <li class="even">. How can I do this with phptemplate in 4.7? Any help is greatly apreciated.

I am theming a taxonomy page. Includes the usual title/description, and then 4 potential node types are pulled into view. I'd like for each type to appear in a seperate callout box.

I have each of the nodes themed already, and they are passing custom fields in to the main taxonomy page. It is just at the page level, I'm calling $content - and not able to see what node types I'm feeding in.

Hello,