Module development and code questions

Hi!

My first steps in module development are quite successfull but i am struggeling with a menu-problem. I have a page where i show alle entrys of a given date. I want to add a link to that page that creates a new node. The date field of that new node has to be prefilled with the date of the page.

I created the link to show up like this:

I'd like to add a few new access permissions:

1) User can edit/delete comments (but not administer)

2) User can edit/delete forum topics (but not administer forums)

How do I go about doing this? (Don't know much PHP but am willing to learn.)

Hello
I have wrote a small module to automating and manage past events
the admin can choose to delete / unsticky / unpromote / unpublish an event that past (cron hook)

is there another (a better way) doing this ?

anyway (even for academic reasons) I'll be happy to understand what is the correct way to do the query of the past events, this is my code :

Hello. I think there is a bug with the markdown/smartypants module version 5.x-1.x-dev and I'm wondering if someone can verify for the bug before I file an issue. Markdown is critical for my site and I'm currently blocked on upgrade without it, unless someone can point out what I'm doing wrong.

I need to sort (by extension) and move the uploaded files table into my right side bar.. I've got no problem sorting a list by extentions... but i don't know in what file the list is generated and if the array of names/links is avail to be used by the sidebar? Can anyone point me in the direction where the attachments list is created to i can follow the code or give me a work around?

thanks

Does someone have a mod for taxonomy_image to use image module created nodes instead of the own upload/storage?
Thx