Module development and code questions

I am creating a module for a company I work for for drupal 4.7x. I am trying to create a module I call the reviews module that mimics the capabilities of the built-in comment module, except I want to add the ability to provide a 5 star rating system. I have it working now so that when creating a new node it displays a review settings section, just like the comment settings collapsible fieldset, for setting disabled, read/write and read only. Once new content is created with the read/write permission of my reviews module, when navigating to that node I have successfully gotten my "post a review" link to show up right next to the add new comment link provided by the comment module. When I click my "post a review" link, my module successfully takes the user to a page to create their review and post it. Posting the review saves it in the database correctly. This is where the problems start. Similar to the comments module, I want my reviews module to display the user submitted reviews in a fashion similar to the built-in comment module except I don't need threading or anything like that. I noticed that in the node module it specifically calls comment_render to display all the comments. I would rather not have to edit any core module so that I can maintain portability of my new module.

I want to show some debug information similar to the devel module. I noticed that the queries displayed from the devel module do not reuire the user to enable blocks or anything. How is this done -- displaying content without adding a link or enabling from a block? This is day 3 for me using Drupal so I apologize in advance for my "newbie-ness".

Hey there I have been looking at the Job search module, as it seems to do everything I need however I cannot get it to work, applications dont seem to get created and the jobs cannot be found unless you look in administer.

can anyone help me to set this up or recommend an alternative

Thanks

I'm looking at multi-step forms with Drupal. I've had this working on Drupal 5, and am migrating my module to Drupal 6. I've noticed that core forms.inc now uses cache_set/cache_get for storing form information between requests, where it used to use $_SESSION. I also have need to store form information between requests, and actually need to get my data stored before the first form request (so I need to do it outside $form_state['storage']).

I have successfully installed ed_classifieds on several sites successfully, however, on a particular site I installed it and before I had a chance to enter in any catagories someone placed an ad. I could not get it to work properly after that.

hi,

I want to develop a custom content which should be included of 3 pages or 3 stories.
Those 3 pages should be accessible as one content. Also on click of create that "X" custom content ... user should get an
option of creating three pages in tab.... (he/she can create one page at time) but the thing is it should be viewable as tab...

Can someone suggest whats the way to go??
Should CCK and View be used or can Book be tailored for this kinda thing???

Many thanks in advance for your views...