Module development and code questions

Hi I am a newbie who just started using drupal. I am developing this website www.giveaslice.org as a class project and got stuck on a blog issue.

I want to include a blog such that all anonymous users can post new entries and comments on it. at the moment, i've disabled the comment module as the website is not designed for interactive purposes. but i really want to have a blog to allow for some kind of interactivity with the visitors. thanks.

There is a problem with the version 5 Front Page module. If you log out, you cannot then log back in. It will give you the Access Denied message - until you delete the module files off the server. Then you can log in with no problems and re-upload the Front Page module files....

I do not have the re-direct option turned on....

I confess that I am no programmer and that I know enough about drupal to be dangerous. However I am needing to offer my users the ability to add the blogroll of the aggregated blogs on my site to their site. Of course the Syndicate Module outputs an OPML of my the feeds being read in my aggregator, but what most of my users desire is some sort of javacript option that they can insert into their blogger or typepad templates.

I am using '#after_build' in a form to install a function that is called after submitting the form but before showing it. Why is it called twice? (Once with the submitted form values, once with newly initialized form values?)

Hi,

Is there a way to limit the maximum number of words that a user can enter in a textarea that is part of a flexinode or a simple node. I want to be able to limit the maximum words according to user role, or per specific flexinode, but can't seem to find anything by searching.

I was thinking I could write a javascript and embed it in the specific flexinode, that would check the number of words when the user pressed submit, but I have limited knowledge about programming and can't seem to find the flexinode file (i guess each flexinode is constructed in the db).

Ok, a couple questions regarding the new system for releasing projects. Is it advised to create a new release for every patch? I can't imagine wanting the default release to be a version of the module that doesn't have the latest patch... And how then can I delete old releases? I don't see any way to get rid of the old ones. If I'm making a new release for each patch or major version, it seems the list would start to get cluttered and really be unhelpful.