Module development and code questions

I did some searching and failed to find any news on a spell checker module that's compatible with Drupal 4.6 It appears that the previous maintainer, mathias, is no longer working on it. Is anyone else planning on updating this module? I found Spellchecker to be highly useful, and would try to update it myself if I had the skills to do so.

I'm trying to create a module for a custom node type. I'm trying to enter in my_module_view something like:

$node->body .= "<div>something elstra</div>";
 $node = node_prepare($node, $teaser);

... but the

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a module and I'd like to have a tab on the top of the page I'm displaying.
I've added this snippet of code below to my association_menu(), but even if the code get executed
(I've added a print "hello!!!" just before the $item[] = ...) the tab doesn't appear.

association_add is just a simple page that ends with theme('page', $content);

Hi, is there anyone who got a solution for the broken article module...

When I installed it whent all good, but when I try to write an article it does not appear in my menu...

I'm trying to think of how to best do the following:

I'm slowly getting familiar with the modules and what can be accomplished.

Is there a module ideal for a display like the Main Page of Wikipedia ? For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Each day brings you a new Featured Article, Selected Anniversaries, News, and a "Did You Know?" section.