Module development and code questions

Finally the node-level permissions made it into core. Thank you, thank you, thank you :)

My scenario is simple: I need to hide some forums from certain users.

JonBob already made the solution for me with the example module he made for taxonomy - simply select the forum taxonomy as the permission taxonomy as well and everything is fine.

However, I can't figure out how to hide the taxonomy terms themselves - that is, prevent the forums to get listed on the forum page and in the drop downs when people add new forum topics.

Iam not able to save images in the database , I get an error like

"warning: Rename failed (No such file or directory) in /home/sites/site1/web/drupal/modules/image.module on line 719.
Cannot save image."
There's no problem with the premissions of the directories

Hi, folks

I hacked a simple geoURL modult yesterday that allows me to use WorldKit with Drupal (see http://brainoff.com/weblogs/blogtalk/map/ for an example of what I intend to do).

The problem is that I need to alter the RSS feed in several ways in order for this to work properly. Here is an example of a Geourl-enhanced RSS feed:

http://brainoff.com/weblogs/blogtalk/index.xml

So, what do I need?

I was looking at integrating the Gallery Module. It says it was last updated for the 4.1.0 version of Drupal. Will there be an update for 4.4.2 or even 4.5.x? Can the old version be used with 4.4.2? From reading the forums I am guessing that it is not compatable.

This is a request. I like the news syndicator, but what would be tres cool would be if each user of a drupal site could customize it for their own preferences.

How would I go about hacking the weblink script to have the links in the block link to the content rather than the web? Just like the article module? The article module block functions link to the full node page. I was hoping I could get weblinks block function to do the same.

Thanks
Rjspence