Module development and code questions

I am trying to make a site that would have stories that would be scheduled to start and end publish into a particular view. These would be visible as a view, but would then also be sent as an e-mail on a scheduled basis to a role. I am wondering how I can accomplish this. I will say how I have tried so far, and see if any of the drupal gurus have a way to finish the process. I am currently doing this with drupal 4.7, but would do it with 5.x if all the parts are there for it.

I'm upgrading a custom module from 4.6 to 4.7.6, and am encountering problems when I try to apply themes to a form function using drupal_get_form().

I have several CCK content types and I use the node reference field to give me links to related pages and it is very useful. Unfortunately most of my content is actually a standard 'page' type because I thought there was no need for extra fields (until now!).
I have therefor been trying to find a module which will add to normal nodes what CCK does with 'node reference'. I have found Links Package and Related Links, they do a very similar thing BUT they do not let you select from a list. This is an incredibly important feature as users do not want to be copying and pasting urls.

Currently the category_menu module will only create 1 menu item for the lightest weight category/container. If you have a node assigned to several categories, you still only get 1 menu item. I'm not sure what the motivation behind this was, but i need to have it create menu items for everything. I have submitted a feature request and i have also started digging into it.

Does anyone know if this is even possible or why it is limiting the menu item creation to 1?

Thanks

Hi!
First of all many thanks to Roberto for his Localizer module! This has solved me a problem.

Then my very little contribute to the community: recent block for localizer (or not)...

Follow the link to download the source code: http://www.diegobelotti.com/?q=recent_block_for_drupal_and_localizer_en.

When users register I have two checkboxes: one for whether or not they want to say they are willing to be a babysitter and one for petsitter. (this is a site for a neighborhood/subdivision). I want to make a page that simply lets all those that are checked for babysitting (list their name and phone #) and those that are marked for petsitting...

What is the best way to go about this? I'm fairly new to drupal (of course), but do have a little php/mysql background.