Module development and code questions

I am trying to decide what to use. I am leaning toward Public files because I will be able to
1. Upload files myself
2. Supply users with password protected ftp folders where they can upload files themselves and link to them after.

I don't think I can do that with the Private files feature turned on..
What do you guys think ? and would you do that ?

Public - files are available using http directly.
OR
Private - files are transferred by Drupal

Marcel
http://01classifieds.com

I'm working on a site which offers CD music album reviews. I've been looking for a easy way to create a structured review page and flexinode is the only thing that comes close (alows posting of an image, text, URL and email links).

The only thing missing, is a rating system, for example scoring from 1 to 10 and displaying little stars or something as a graphical 'progress bar'.

Would anyone be willing to add this feature to flexinode please?

I have made two posts related to dynamic dropdown box but no reply so far, everytime i refine my question (questions are posted only after search results (drupal.org) returned no desired results).

My two posts are here,

Original version,
http://drupal.org/node/12223

Refined version,
http://drupal.org/node/12262

this post is still refined, here is the what i want,

Hi!

Yust wondering if anybody ported the contact.module to drupal 4.5...

Someone know when Article and Glossary modules for 4.5 may be ready?
I`ll wait them so much :)

Hi -

In the `comments` table of the Drupal database, what does the `pid` column stand for? I'm with http://www.applefritter.com and we're playing with writing some different display and comment code for Drupal threads, and we'd like to keep full backward compatability with the existing Drupal install.

I poked around, but I haven't been able to find any documentation on what various columns stand for. If anyone can point me to any docs that may exist, it'd be great.

Thank you.