Indexpage to Drupal 5.1 please! - Unofficial interim module port.

OK, my apologies to 'Carlos', but I have been putting off upgrading one of my intranet Drupal sites for most of this year, waiting for the IndexPage module to be upgraded to support v5.1, and could not wait any longer, so I have done a quick hack job of the v4.7 IndexPage module to get it working on an intranet Drupal v5.1 website I maintain.
Note that I have no experience with programming in PHP, nor the ins and outs of Drupal module development, however using the notes on the http://drupal.org/node/64279 page, I have got something working to my satisfaction.
I have attached the module changes I have made to this post as a possible interim solution for others to share whilst we wait for an official v5.1 IndexPage port by 'Carlos' or some other more capable 'Drupal' module developer than I.

regards,

Calvin Chan

I have requested CVS access and will create both a 5.x and 6.x version. I'll also go through the issue queue and try to fix everything that looks like it is still applicable (sorry Flexinode folks).