Deprecated - Usability feedback

I often get confused about 2 tear interface solution on
admin/settings
admin/administer

- for instance if I want to change menu's should i go to the 'settins' or 'administer'
of course i learned by now where to go yet i get confuse each time between the two

or - why 'themes' listed under 'Adminster' but not under 'Settings'
or - why 'forums' settings is under 'Adminster'?
I am trying to get grips with logic and usabilty experience

Being someone who likes to copy and paste bits and bobs of information together for a scrapbook, I find drupal.org a bit awkward.

Using IE6 (no choice...) to look through forum postings, its not really possible to mark within all the boxes that have the rounded corners (comments..) e.g. on the home page the release anouncement for Drupal 4.6.2. Sometimes I find an open spot in the lower right corner to mark the whole frame.

Is it ever going to be possible to sort the results of a search by date? (Preferably reverse chronological order though a purely chronological order would still be tons more useful than the current result.) The ordering that's presented now is, essentially, useless.

The OpenUsability project matches usability experts withs software developers intrested in usability advice.

Last month, the Typo3 Enterprise CMS has registered on OpenUsability. "Besides long-term usability support for this project , OpenUsability aims at creating common User Interface Guidelines for Content Management Systems."

I think drupal should join it too.

I couldn't find it through a search, so here it goes:

Is it possible to somehow shelter articles (blogs etc) in the following way:

Publish an blog, page etc either to frontpage or elsewhere and provide it with a teaser.
To read the rest of the story people click on "read more", but are then asked to first register as a member.

I don't want to put my whole content "behind bars" because it helps the site to be indexed by major search engines to the first page (I love Drupal :) ).

So what do I do? Anyone?

(I have some free time because my installation died fatally when I deselected all the taxonomy modules, so I thought I would use this downtime to pose some usability questions.)