Module development and code questions

I am looking at trying to modify the poll module to allow multiple votes from the same IP. I have a website that runs Drupal 4.5.2 that is public to the internet but also mainly accessed via a controlled kiosk at a museum. I want to offer a poll but since the kiosk is always on the same IP you can't ever vote more than the first time.

I don't know whether this modification would be useful to the community at large or not but to even get there I was curious about a couple things:

I'm setting up an site for a client who wants both an ecommerce store and private content through taxonomy_access. But it seems that taxonomy_access has set permissions so that only the admin can view the store, most likely because the store exists outside of available vocabularies. Are these two modules incompatible? Is there some way to move the store into a term inside a normal vocabulary?

Thanks for your time, and forgive my n00bishness.

I'm working on getting a new site up and running and am running into issues with the CVS forum module. The problem is that when I create a forum topic, it does not show up in the forum. If you would like to see what I mean, visit new.alphaetarho.org. Check out the post at the top of the page and then click the "forums" link at the top left of the page. I am using the newest forum.module from CVS.

Here is the issue. I am wanting to add PHPBT (Get File Here see 'download') to Drupal.

I want to be able to have registered users attach .torrent files to their blog entires etc. once they upload the .torrent it should be added to the tracker. If you refer to the newtorrents.php file you see the code to add the hash and file name to the PHPBT tracker DB. So everytime someone uploaded a .torrent file it could be tracked(?).

xMessage

Purpse:
- a block that would show messages of the following type
.........."Joke of the Day"
.........."Prayer of the Day"
.........."Did you know..."
.........."Fact of the Day"

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I hope to learn PHP soon. Until that day comes, (maybe months away) I hope some wonderful Drupal citizens will contribute the first version or phase of this proposed module. Thank you!
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Hi Guys.

Have searched high and low for this - am trying to adapt a module to output a page in drupal as PHP...

e.g.

//** the following line outputs a themed page
print theme('page', $output);

i.e. when you invoke the PRINT command...is there a switch/command that tells drupal to "output this as php"?

Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question..have searched everywhere and there's no obvious indication in the API docs..

Cheers

Dub