Module development and code questions

does anyone know if this module will be converted to work with 4.4?

I'm looking for some tips and guidance on detailed steps to properly use branching on modules (and themes). Turns out I've been doing it wrong (using tags instead of branches). I've looked through the CVS FAQ and developer's section of the Drupal handbook but am still a bit unclear.

I am trying to make a script I wrote in the past into a module. This script accesses a database other than the one that Drupal uses.

For my first attempt I got an error:

Fatal error: insert command denied to user: 'floraforumread@newdelhi.flora.ca' for table 'watchdog' query: INSERT INTO watchdog ...etc...

I am currently attempting to port the TikiWiki JGraphPad drawings 'module' to Drupal 4.4.1. (I am liberally using code from the node_image and urlfilter modules -- many thanks!).

Sorry if this is already known and fixed, but in the version of the "Quote" module I just downloaded, there was a tiny bug that completely messed up my site: When using the quote tag without an author, an (I think) extraneous close div tag destroyed my layout.

I located the close div tag in line 70 of quote.module

If anybody knows whether deleting that tag will cause further problems, please let me know. So far it seems to have resolved the issue.

I'm having trouble updating 4.4 CVS tags on modules and themes in the contributions repository.