Module development and code questions

Is the new drupal 5.0 technique to use this for onload events?

$(document).ready(somefunctionjsfunction);

to replace this in 4.7

addLoadEvent(somefunctionjsfunction);

I haven't seen a drupal developers quide to jQuery yet, and they've
begin removing functions out of drupal.js

I'd like to use the forum module as an "issue tracking" tool, whereby a site visitor posts a message (with images). The Site Admin could respond to the message and perhaps post images as well. This "dialog" would remain private between the original sender and the admin.

Is this possible via the forum module?

Hello everyone this is my first posting here hope you dont mind. My question is how to I get my new
board to look like this one? What I mean the tabled look.

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone has a quick snippet which allows me to update the views and votes values of a node or even a group of nodes. An alternative is a way to enter these values when create the node..

What PHP snippet would allow me to check to see if a particular module was active?

Is there a missing plugins folder for the video 4.6 module download? The module says it has features like video_image, upload but I couldn't find it anywhere.