Module development and code questions

Is it just me, or has anyone noticed how the majority of the modules (well, majority of the ones I've downloaded so far), don't actually make use of the "Body field label" for a given content type?
For example, when editing a content type it has a nice little label stating:
"To omit the body field for this content type, remove any text and leave this field blank."
And yet, a lot don't actually obey that ... nor do they even obey the "Body field label" for changing the name ...

... hmm ... what a shame, so much wasted real estate on stuff I don't need.

I installed ed_classifieds and before i set the categories someone placed an ad. As a result i could not get the Categories to show up properly. Instead of getting a listing of the categories I got "There are 0 ads in this category when you click the Classified Ads link.

I deleted the ads and uninstalled the module. I then deleted the tables in mySQL. I then unzipped a fresh module and and reinstalled. Now it does not install the taxonomy category "Classified ads" and when I create the category I am right back where I started.

How can i use the Webserver)auth module? This module doesn't have a documentation.

Anyone have examples?

How calculates the module nodevote the classification "highest rated nodes"? THANKE

I want to make a section of my custom cck type that has about 6 checkboxes. when they check one of these checkboxes, as many as ten checkboxes appear underneath the one they checked. if they checked a sub-checkbox, a text area would appear for details. i don't want to have everything displayed, because it would be really long. i looked into the form_enabler module, but i want them to appear, not just be enabled, and form_enabler doesn't work for 5.x. Any ideas?

Brett

I want to make it so each group of my custom cck type gets it's own page. the user would fill out a section and click a 'next' or 'save' button and progress onto the next section. any ideas?

Brett