Deprecated - Usability feedback

Non techy user of 1 month upgrades from 4.3rc to 4.3. OK not a major upgrade but this was my experience:

1. Downloaded version 4.3
2. Looked inside downloaded file and opened install instructions
- didnt find any upgrade instructions
3. Searched drupal site for help
- found upgrade info for older versions of drupal & pieced together instructions that were:
-- 1. back up existing database
-- 2. upload/overwrite all drupal files with the new ones
-- 3. run update.php
-- 4. sit back and enjoy new site
4. Problem: could no longer access database. Of course I had to alter config.inc again
5. Now update.php could run but returned an error
- user error: Table 'myusername.url_alias' dosent exist... and various headers already sent errors
6. Ignoring this thinking, ok well obviously this is a new table that dosent exist yet cos I havent run the script I proceded, using the default 'update from' date.
7. Update report:
- same errors as before followed by
- long list of succesful and unsuccesful updates (I assume some errors caused because tables already existed?)
- message at foot of page says that if some errors occured I may have to update database manually (not helpful, I dont know which errors are important and which not)
8. Current status
- I dont know if I have a good install of drupal or not. It seems to be working but obvioulsy there is a large shadow of doub

Using the search you get sometimes a very long list with first comments, and then nodes. Wouldnt it make more sense to list first nodes as they have a higher importance? I know there is the option on the search results page to filter but its an extra step.

Also the search brings up lots of broken links. I assume these pages must have been deleted or have had their titles changed. Is there not a way to report such a link?

Here's the process for enabling a module on a drupal site.

Enable the module on the 'Administer >> Configuration >> Modules' page
Configure the module on the 'Administer >> Configuration >> Modules >> NewModule' page
Set the permissions on the user 'Administer >> Accounts >> Permissions' page.

It would be great if after enabling a module on the 'Administer >> Configuration >> Modules' page, the user was provided module specific instructions and direct links to these pages.

I need someone to kinda help me through some setup here and if anyone has aim please im me at sefects and if anyone has yahoo messenger im me at nino012782.....messaging clients would be preffered cause can be real time as i try things.

I am looking for a webblog that allows me to be able to post to it via an email address. Reason i am looking for this is cause i would like to create an upcoming events page for a car club i own. There are many times that i am informed of an upcoming show or event but am not near a computer to post it on my website and i forget about it by the time i get to a computer. But yet i can submit emails from my cell phone which is why i am looking for something that allows me to post via email. any help would be greatly appreciated.

In my opinion, in User information block there should be a Link named 'View your contributes' that should point to tracker.module with my UID, as it is now under 'My account / View user information / Recet posts'
This could help the user to have a clear view of all his constributes to the Portal.