Module development and code questions

Hello!

I got the Zend Studio Debugging IDE working with my drupal installation, heres how i got it to work

http://dgtlmoon.com/zend_studio_debugging_and_drupal_on_php_5_x

I know i saw a module and i believe it is used on BRYGHT sites that turns the admin menu into a nice unobtrusive set of tabs at the top of the admin page and I can't find it after extensive searching through the all too massive module repository.

also is there a way to search only in the modules. there are way to many to scroll through and the attempt to categorize by type is not that helpful.

I am writing my first module and creating a custom form. I don't really see how to combine two form elements on the same line. Or at least not one on top of the other. Any ideas or examples?

I'm posting this in Module development because I think that's where it fits best, although my question is partly about Drupal in general. I'm trying to determine is Drupal was a good fit for a project I'm working on. I'm fairy sure the answer is "Yes Drupal is perfect for this" but I'd like to hear it from someone who actually knows Drupal :)

I have three requirements for the website:

1) A basic informational website with tabs and pages and links and all that stuff. No visitors will be able to edit pages or anything, just myself or other employees.

2) In that list of tabs will be one special tab, something like "My Account". This is where the bulk of the functionality of the website will be. When you hit this page, instead of displaying an article, it will run custom PHP code to access a SOAP server and display information, configuration forms, etc. For example something like /MyAccount/ will be the home for the user's account, which will list some details about their account in an editable form and have some links. /MyHome/ListMyProducts might list products they have purchased etc. ( I guess I'm saying I want to mostly use Drupal for my site but have a bit of a custom webapp inside of it ).

I think that I just use some sort of node hook and if the name of the node is one of my special pages I deal with it however I want. On the right track?

I'm trying to add support for the video_cck module, and I'm having trouble with checkboxes. This code, according to how I understand it, should set the checkbox as checked and then if it's unchecked on form submit, add a variable to the variable table in the database. It does neither of those. If I change it to a textbox, for instance, and enter some text, it works flawlessly. I'm thinking there's something I don't understand about checkboxes...
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I'd like to change a number of stylistic features for the comment module, mainly:

1. Add some help text
2. Change/remove the "Post new comment", "Your name:" text
3. Most importantly change the way the nested comments are outputted to make them truly "nested" like this wordpress plugin.

I've worked out how to do some of this with phptemplate_comment_wrapper and phptemplate_comment_form but it seems that I can't get around hacking the comment module for the rest.