Module development and code questions

I have a project that will need full text searches over 1000s of document nodes within Drupal. I am worried that the core search in Drupal might not scale well for a large site with a lot of users, so I am looking in to xapian and getting it to work with Drupal.

Does anyone know of any existing work on this, or how to go about doing it? I’ve not installed it yet, so I don’t know how hard it is, but I’d rather work on someone else starting code than write from scratch.

Thanks

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Can I place every container in an other menu/block? I don´t want all the containers in a single menu block. I can change the default root menu in the settings, but can not overrule this setting for a single container. Or am I overlooking something? :D

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How to customized comment module where all the users can send a comments but cannot view from another users comment except his own comments...... Thanks for any help :)

Is it possible to disable a category? I can disable the menuitem, but the category will be displayed in the table of contents of the container. And the category is also added in the navigation links to point to distant neighbors.

Does anyone knows a quick solution for this problem?

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I've been trying to find a clean way to use the search module inside of a module that I am creating. I need users to be able to search for nodes, and then select them. The selected nodes will then be associated with another node. From what I can tell, the search module is geared toward allowing a user to search for and view nodes, and it doesn't really lend itself to being embedded in other modules.

Is there a clean and elegant way to do this, or should I copy parts of the search module?