Module development and code questions

I am using the Gallery Remote module available at http://lsb.blogdns.net/software/galleryremote/, which is a really nice way to upload lots of photos to my Drupal site.

I have set up a number of image galleries, each of which has several sub-galleries. However, when using digiKam, only the 1st level galleries are accessible through the digiKam gallery remote client. The result is that I can upload the pictures to my "Photos" gallery, but not to my "Photos -- 2006" gallery.

I have been banging my head trying to find a simple way that users, not just registered users, can submit their email address and this "submit" action will generate an email to them AND to the admin, or even better, create an email list.

I don't need/want any other options, just a block on my main page that users put their email address into and viola - they get an email in return. Can anybody point me in the right direction? I'm php illiterate, and my attempts at using flash within drupal have failed.

Anyone pity me?

I have a need to post data to a remote form, based on input from a module. What capabilities does drupal have to do this? or do i need to use a pear module of something?

Ok so the image module clearly exists for 4.7 because other things are dependent on it, so my question is where the hell do you download the 4.7 version of image module from???

maybe i'm a spacker but i can't find it anywhere...

In my flexinode_filed table I have a column called options that has the following data:

select	a:10:{i:1;s:1:"5";i:2;s:3:"4.5";i:3;s:1:"4";i:4;s:3:"3.5";i:5;s:1:"3";i:6;s:3:"2.5";i:7;s:1:"2";i:8;s:3:"1.5";i:9;s:1:"1";i:10;s:3:"0.5";}

I need to query this data and use it on my site but I am not sure how to correctly access it and parse it. Is this some type of special Drupal way to store data?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

How I can add new fields to the View module?
For example, I need to have a new column named "file" for Table View (with table content from Upload module).

(Thanks for the great module! Sorry, I am a newbie in Drupal and my english...)