Converting to Drupal

Hi, I'm new to Drupal and am busy reading the docs and testing some of the modules, including CCK. It's a very impressive CMS and community!

I'd like to port an existing Perl/CGI site over to Drupal 4.7.x to take advantages of its many features, but am still not sure of the correct approach. Hopefully someone can point me to the right module/docs for completing this :).

The site to be ported has information about users. That information will be edited by each user or the site admin. Some of that information is a one-to-one relationship with each user (e.g., name, class year, etc.), while the rest is a one-to-many relationship (e.g., degrees earned (each having the name, field of study, and graduation year of the institution), papers published, etc.). Here is an example:

User1
-- [Name] John Doe
-- [Class] 1995
-- [Major] Engineering
-- [Graduate Education]
-- -- [School] Georgia Tech
-- -- -- [Year] 2000
-- -- -- [Degree Type] MS
-- -- -- [Major] Engineering
-- -- [School] MIT
-- -- -- [Year] 2005
-- -- -- [Degree Type] PhD
-- -- -- [Major] Engineering

but I don't know in advance how many schools/papers/etc. the user will be enternig. I'd like to get some input on the best way to handle this type of "node", or if that is even the correct approach.

Can I create a node that will ask for/allow multiple entries of certain data types? If so, can you please point me to the handbook/forum topic that explains how to do this?

I was trying to migrate an existing phpbb2/PostgreSQL install to a new Drupal/MySQL install on the same machine. I found that my version of MySQL was so old, it did not support "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES" which appears to be required for phpbb2drupal.

So, I'm building out a new box using an up-to-date OS and MySQL, and I'm hoping to import the data directly from the PostgreSQL database on the existing box (on the same LAN). Can this be done, or do I need to dump the data, restore it to the PostgreSQL db on the new box, then import? I'm trying to minimize my downtime.

A friend of my has designed a web site. bascically a static (brochure) kind of web and he would like to be able to add shopping cart functionality to it.

i was wondering if the drupal ecommerce module could be used to hang off of the existing web where the would drill down on manufacturer --> brand --> product category and using an id from the product category, query the database and display the images, prices, etc of products related to the selected product category.

HI
I am new to drupal..I have been using mambo/Joomla for quite some time, but now need to migrate to drupal.
I find a lot of difference from these CMSs. I find drupal pretty confusing.Can any one provide me a link to a good documentation for using drupal. i searched a lot but I could not find one explaining working with drupal.
So please
thanks
drupal_india

Hi,
I currently run a site which revolves arround phpBB2 (with mxBB portal- http://www.mx-system.com )
The user roles of phpBB make it very easy to have blocks and menu items shown depending on user role.

I recently installed the wordfilter module and wanted to know if anyone created (or would be willing to create) an importer for IPB's bad word filter list. IPB allows you to export your bad words to an XML file so the importer would not have to touch the database at all, just parse an XML file and insert the data into the database.