Module development and code questions

I've got a couple of questions concerning a module I'm creating:

I am using Drupal 4.6 with the theme Pushbutton.
Whenever I do an action command, I get a dialog box that says 'Configuration options complete'. All is well. I go to another page.. and it comes up again.

What is happening is these actions are not being cleared. So after making a few adjustments I've got an entire page of confirmation messages.. and they don't go away until logout, or emptying of the session table.

Is this a template issue causing the session information not the be cleared on page load? Or is this an issue with session management on the server end?

Hello,

I am developing a node module that involves access to a different type of database using a different set of database access functions. Certain important node hooks ask for a return value that is a query result resource. The problem would be solved if there is a way to return a query result resource that imitates the expected result resource? Is there a standard advised way to do this?

Alternatively, is there any way to get around using a query result resource to return data, so that the module hooks can provide data from other sources?

Hello everyone,

The short story: Please help me convert all my 4.6 weblink nodes to flexinodes.

The longer explanation: During the past few years, the users on one of my sites accumulated a few hundreds links. We are using the weblink module to manage them. Since the 4.6 upgrade, the weblink module no longer has any presentation features. This makes the module in itself not very useful, and the directory module doesn't inspire me in any way. I would like to convert the entire weblink collection to flexinodes, without loosing data and without changing the URL's.

I'm using drupal 4.6 with a modified Friendselectric theme. With img_assist, when i specify left or right alignment, it places the image in the expected place, but it places it with the *rest* of the page wrapping around it. What this means is that if i insert an image into an article that is only a few lines long, on the page that lists the stories, you'll have stories 2,3,4 all wrapping around the image, destroying the entire layout.

Here's a sketchy diagram to display what i mean :
The image below (as #) belongs only to story one, and should not have story 2 anywhere near it, but this is the result)

Story 1 : The image i took :
|####| This was taken from a camera!
|####|
|####| Story 2 : Damn wrapping issues!
|####| that gets wrapped up with story 1's image
and then it causes the bottom to finnally hit a new line

Story 3 : starts where it should be on a new line by itself.
This is story 3's content.

So i figured a duct-tape fix would be to simply disable the alignment feature, and just allow the image to sit on the page (not floated, or wrapped). I did this by deleting the

Hi! I'm creating a module for faqs. I was thinking that it would be easy to store the data in the node table by making the body look like:

<question>....</question><answer>...</answer>

I would then have two separate entry blocks, and when the data is saved to the database, I would modify the body to properly format the data. I've written most of the stuff, but how do I tell Drupal what $node->body should be? hook_insert/_update don't have a modifiable $node passed to them (and the body field may already have been written?).

Thanks,
Ricky