Module development and code questions

Hello,

I'm using views.module on my Drupal site and the form (shown below) gets written into the first line of the 'contentwrap' DIV which holds this code in page.tpl.php:
<?php print $content; ?>

Is there a way to have the Browse Form (below) load into an empty, hard coded DIV in page.tpl.php with an ID of "foo"? This is so I can position the 'foo' DIV where every I like to get the layout I'm looking for.

The form:

I am trying to get imachecache work with cck for a while now. But i @#*&#@ wont work :)

I can create a imagecache preset, i can assign it in CCK. I can upload a images to /files but no folders & files for imagecache are created.
Other modules like pictures can create a folder in files. I look at a lot of solutions in the forum, but nothing worked for me.

I am working on my localhost/Mac osx with MAMP. What can be the problem?

I've generally had great success with Drupal 5.1 and am very happy with my site. Except for the ping module.

I'm not sure it works at all. I have a blog and two podcasts on my site, but I post them using "story" and "audio" content types. The core ping module doesn't seem to ping at all, which is a problem.

I want to add two forms with different action so that
Can I have two forms with different action on same page?

So,

I want to create a RSS feed for the image gallery module (does Gallery2 do this?), but it would be handly to be able to slap a custom RSS feed on any group of nodes, by custom I mean, change the link attribute to point to an image/video/torrent whatever.

I don't understand what hooks I need to override. I know the hook_nodeapi lets you ADD to an existing feed, but I don't think Image Galleys have their own(?). I guess I could make a View to do this but would it put the image URL as the link for each item, I fear not.

Hi I'm trying to use fileshare module for realizing an upload and download area. A download area is no problem I can remove the rights to upload. But when I'm trying to hide the files and folders in the upload area the upload form doesn't find the folders to upload. Is it possible to to hide the files an folders in the download area?