Drupal 4.7.x

I want to create a hyperlink to a taxonomy term. Let's call it term number 27. So, if I do:

/* text */

Suddenly, and inexplicably, my cron.php file has stopped executing properly. The search remains unindexed and watchdog has this message:

"Last cron run did not complete."

Can anyone suggest where I could look to fix this?

Emails are being sent out that look like this:

"Here is your new password for Drupal site. You may now login to http://drupalsite.com/index.php?q=user using the following username and password:

username: Johnsmith

password: %password"

Literally its not putting in a real password.

So, the new way to add stuff to the standard node_edit form is to use hook_form_alter. That's all good and dandy, except that I see no way to alter the alterations.

A concrete example:

Taxonomy has a taxonomy_form_alter function. This function changes the node_edit form to include category items.

Hopefully I can get across what it is I want, then maybe someone can point me (a newbie in Drupal development) in the right direction with tips / experience.

Ok, I will use an example to illustrate what I want. First, lets start with a snippet of legislation I'm getting from here:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/009/06009.i-iv...

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1 The National Identity Register

(1) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a register
of individuals (to be known as “the National Identity Register”).

(2) The purposes for which the Register is to be established and maintained are
confined to the statutory purposes.

(3) The statutory purposes are to facilitate, by the maintenance of a record of registrable
facts about individuals in the United Kingdom—

(a) The provision of a convenient method for such individuals to prove
registrable facts about themselves to others; and

(b) The provision of a secure and reliable method for registrable facts about
such individuals to be ascertained or verified wherever that is
necessary in the public interest.

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Now I'll define what words I'll use later when i get on to what I want....

As you can see we have a peice of text, with N levels in its hierarchy(here n =3, 1... (1)... and (a)...), I'll call all of the entries at one particular level a section, so that for example section "1." here is everything I've posted from the snippet, section "1. (1)" is just the two lines, and section "1.(3)" contains the 2 lines of text AND all of (a),(b). Finally, section "1.(1).(a)" contains only the two lines...

I'd like to give registered users access to some folders (of my old before-drupal website) which are secured by 'htaccess'.
Is there a way to not force users to login twice ?
I mean, if usernames and passwords in Drupal are the same as defined in htaccess-groups, is there a way to give them to the login window, that appears when the user calls content from a secured folder ?