Module development and code questions

Hi, is there anyone who got a solution for the broken article module...

When I installed it whent all good, but when I try to write an article it does not appear in my menu...

I'm trying to think of how to best do the following:

I'm slowly getting familiar with the modules and what can be accomplished.

Is there a module ideal for a display like the Main Page of Wikipedia ? For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Each day brings you a new Featured Article, Selected Anniversaries, News, and a "Did You Know?" section.

Greetings all,

I have been trying to install the downloaded Htmlarea WYSIWYG editor module (for Drupal 4.6) but haven't had much luck. As a matter of fact, I guess the module is getting installed properly, but when I unpack the Xena (downloaded from http://xinha.gogo.co.nz/cgi-bin/trac.cgi) in the Htmlarea module directory (as indicated in Htmlarea install.txt file), trouble begins. As soon as I go to any page with a text field, drupal/browser throws up an error saying:

Hi,

Is it possible that users define their own password during registeration. How do i do that. i am not a coder i ll be happy if someone can help me...

thanks

Hi! I'd like to customize logging information by acting upon log entries as they happen, or perhaps even have the system email me on specific kinds of log entries as they happen. Is there a hook for this kind of thing so that I could write a module to do it?

I browsed the list of available hooks but I don't see any that apply. Did I miss one, or is this not possible with the current hooks available?

Thanks!