Module development and code questions

Hi I'd like to update a module (donations) from 4.6 to 4.7, but I keep getting the following error:
cvs -z9 -d:pserver:lapurd:password@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib login
no such user lapurd in CVSROOT/passwd

Never had any CVS problems before, this seems a problem on the server. Anonymous works fine. Anyone can help me? I've looked around for answers on this site and Google and so far it seems related to the server. Thanks.

Is it possible to find out the order of modules being loaded when a page is called. Is there a rule or function that determines this? Is it immutable and dependable information ?

I seem to remember seeing that modules are loaded in alphabetical order. Is this true? Would it be safe to say when a forum node is called then

Comment
Forum
Node

is the order? or would it be something different everytime?

Is there in Drupal any function that does something like this ??

function path_returns_alias(drupal_path)

return alias_for_drupal_path

This could be useful to 'mask' original paths with aliases (if they exist)

For example, instead of taxonomy/term/1 if I defined the alias 'category1' for it, whenever I don't want to print out taxonomy/term/1 I would prefer to print out 'category1'...

Hope I could explain....

Matteo

My "Vote up/down" project http://drupal.org/node/48774 is an attempt to build a digg.com/reddit.com clone. (Project not approved yet so download from cvs.)

Are you using the smtp_checker module? Did you find hard to select which form fields the smtp validation should take place?

I have added a new option where a form assistant can be activated to make this task easier. More details can be found here:
http://drupal.org/node/50184

I would appreciate any input you can give, before commiting to the 4.7 branch.

Thanks

Any Ideas to make taxonomy_theme module for 4.6 work with php 5?