Converting to Drupal

I'm not entirely sure this is the most appropriate place to post this, but I've been wondering how much easier it will be to design with Drupal now that it's gone 4.7. I've dealt with it before and had a very hard time, it seems so very cumbersome and daughtining, although that may be due to laziness on my part. I was just wondering if anyone found it easier to develop with this new version.

I'd like to move away from CivicSpace because they don't seem to be tracking Drupal development and, as it turns out, the modules/functionality they supply I don't need.

Has anybody moved AWAY from CIvicSpace TO stock Drupal? If so, how did you do it? Thanks....

Is it possible to have multiple authors per node/story/post in drupal? Are there any other open source cmses that support the same?

Is there a way to create internal links? For example, in typo3 you could insert:

<LINK 453>My Link to page id 453</LINK>

Thanks,

Alan

hi every body...
i m very confused with my problem please help me out...
I want to create a site using drupal....but i want to create my own theme .....i m planning to use bluemarine...
i have created site using dhtml dream weaver which will have all pull down menus and many stuffs....so that my site looks good....now i have got dhtml code with me how can i merge this with drupal ....
should i need php code or what else need....where should i change code in blue marine....
so that i want to mix my site look with drupal...............
plz help...

okay, I'm moving an old custom forum across into drupal 4.7, and have written a couple of scripts that move the relevant fields from the old database into the drupal one.

The tables I've moved data into are...

* node
* node_revisions
* forum
* term_node

...and everything looks pretty good, up to the point of trying to see the forum topic listed in the relevant forum.