Module development and code questions

I had 2 users from the HR roles. User1 will not be able to edit the unpublished node created by User2. I understand Drupal 5 allows edits rights for owner even if the node is unpublished. How can I enable users to edit (update/delete) unpublished nodes that belong to the same role?

I am not good at codings and I looked into this node but it was for Drupal 4.x:
http://drupal.org/node/41188
Wonder if this applies to Drupal 5.

Thank you.

I have a drupal site http://www.dellcoupondeals.com that will need a something that would alert me via email when a link is down or expired deal. Ideally the customer would clink on my on a link marked expired deal. That would send me an email with the contents showing me that the deal is deal and I should remove it. I want to provide quality links for deals on my site and that means that I would have to check the a couple times a day. This way I would get a alert and I would either update the link or just remove the deal.

Searching d.org for a suitable survey-module i saw a posting of a drupaler that recently did build a comprehensive survey-module for a (chicago?) newspaper he works for. He promissed to make the module generic and make it avail to the community. I cannot find that post again.
Anybody knows whether this module is already commited? Or who this drupaler is?
Thanks

I'm using a module that makes use of hook_search to add additional search results in a separate tab. Is there some way that I can combine all of the search results into one tab?

Thanks,

Moses

I have a client that has a library of video files in .flv format. I would like to use the excellent Flashvideo module to let him attach and display videos in a CCK content type.

My problem is how to bypass ffmpeg. All the videos are ready to go without any conversion- they just need a an easy way to be uploaded and attached to a node.

Hi

I currently have my own node module written but I want the output to be created as a forum topic now.

So, I would like to know if anyone knows how to customise the forum topic node form, so that I can return the HTML output from a form, as the forum topic's body.

I was thinking if I could just alter my module and change node_insert to database INSERT into "forum" tables, but I know that the forum.module is complicated and inserts into many tables. Does anyone know how to do this?

Any ideas, please.

Thanks

Regards, Jason.