Module development and code questions

Hello all,
I spent the the day going through all the new and old auction.module's. I like the ecommerce package a great deal. My problem, I have not migrated to 4.5.0, although I do have 4.5.0 up and running on another system. I love 4.4.0 and I'm not so keen on tabs...yet. Anyway, I have thoroughly gone through the cvs archives and various sandboxes looking for an auction module that will work on 4.4.0. For example, in the ecommerce suite of modules, in the contrib folder, lives the auction module. It was first released almost three weeks ago...it will not work with 4.4.0. This auction module requires the product.module that is included in the ecommerce suite in order to run. I found older versions of the product.module in the cvs archive. I searched for a date on the module that was before 4.4.0s release, found one, installed it, and it worked. The auction module did not. Is there ANY way to make this auction module work with 4.4.0? I know the hooks are different, but it's still drupal. Any suggestions?

Also, I found another auction.module that was stand-alone(not requiring another module to work as in my previous example), supported images, written at a time 4.4.0 should be able to use it. It was written by 'tlodge' and I think, not to certain though, taken over by 'uwe'. Anyhow, it didn't work. I fiddled around and got half of it installed...I think, but I don't know how big it really is. I successfully installed the section dealing with image size and email to the buyers and sellers. Yet, and I have REALLY TRIED, I can't get any menu links or access to any other part of the module. Does anyone have any sugestions or know how this module works? I think this module has much promise, although the author called it 'alpha alpha'. Any suggestions are welcome.

I just pasted the entire htmlarea directory, did the db script and checked the module in the admin.

Nothin'

Whatelse is needed?

Drupal 4.5

I reported an issue on this but I was wondering if anyone has a quick fix. The blogger api does not post HTML correctly. It decodes the tags and shows them as < something here <.

It also does not recieve the category field from the blog client and leaves it open.

I have tried

Zempt
w::blogger
movableposter plugin

All with the same results. I have also tried the different combinations of the API engines and clients. They all respond the same way.

I installed form_mail.module by copying the module to the www/modules/ directory and activating it in the admin/modules tab.
Than, i set up a form this way: http://drupal.org/node/5180

When i click on send i get following error in my browser:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /form_mail/ on this server.

Apache/1.3.31 Server at www.immermusik.de Port 80

What can i do?

Hi you,
Due to Webspace saving i want to add images to my gallery in only one version (800x600).
Now, there are two versions, the scaled one and the "original image".
How can i do this?

I'm running the remindme module in version 4.4 and it works great. Is it being updated for 4.5? We just won't do without it. (Does anyone have it running on 4.5 even though it's for an older version?)

Thank you!