Module development and code questions

I recently switched to a fixed width drupal theme, and because my images are all way bigger than the tiny frame they're loading in with the Gallery module, I would like to alter it so instead of loading inside the drupal theme it would open up just in gallery2.

Current Example:
http://www.mysite.com/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=1213

As the title says, I'd like to change the way node authors are displayed to better integrate with the Nodeprofile module. First, I want the displayed author text to be the title field of the user's Nodeprofile page, instead of the username (in this case I am using the standard Title field as a "real name" field, no CCK involved). Second, I'd like this text to link to the Nodeprofile page of the user, instead of Drupal's built-in user page.

I need to display nodes that a given user (via user id argument) was commented on. You can see this for example in digg.com when you display someone's page and it has news that the user submitted and commented on.

I have buddylist module installed and it provide the views to list nodes created by buddies of current user (logged in user) but I want to have a views to list nodes created by buddies of a given user id (via argument). How to do this?

Hi,

I'm having two issues related to Events and Classified Ads Modules.

1. a.

I installed both the modules and then i created menu items by editing default items from Navigation. Actually when both the modules are installed with the following Path and added parent item as primary links, both menu items are created fine but the same menu items are gone once admin logged out which means visitor is not able to see them in site menu.

node/add/ed-classifieds
node/add/event

1.b.

And when i use the Path like this, every visitor and registered user can see them in site menu.

ed-classifieds
event

2. When i use 1.a. and click on menu items, respective posting form is opened and hence i am able to post content for both the modules.

But when i user 1.b. and click on menu items, posting form is not opened.

Basically my requirement is:

When i click on menu item i should be able to see first all the previously posted results and then posting form or link should be appeared in the same page so that i should be able to post content for the above Classified Ads and Events modules. For example it should be just like Forum module in which any user see the posted threads list and then post a new thread link. And this link either prompts login or shows posting form based on the visiting user or registered user.

Hi,

I need to do 2 things. 1) I need to create a referral module that adds a referral code to the registration page of the drupal site. Then I need to make a module that will self replicate a certain page. I was just curious, before i get started if there are any modules that come close to this.

If so I can just upgrade those modules, or else I will need to make a whole new module, so any info here would be great.

Thanks