Module development and code questions

Hi, folks

I hacked a simple geoURL modult yesterday that allows me to use WorldKit with Drupal (see http://brainoff.com/weblogs/blogtalk/map/ for an example of what I intend to do).

The problem is that I need to alter the RSS feed in several ways in order for this to work properly. Here is an example of a Geourl-enhanced RSS feed:

http://brainoff.com/weblogs/blogtalk/index.xml

So, what do I need?

I was looking at integrating the Gallery Module. It says it was last updated for the 4.1.0 version of Drupal. Will there be an update for 4.4.2 or even 4.5.x? Can the old version be used with 4.4.2? From reading the forums I am guessing that it is not compatable.

This is a request. I like the news syndicator, but what would be tres cool would be if each user of a drupal site could customize it for their own preferences.

How would I go about hacking the weblink script to have the links in the block link to the content rather than the web? Just like the article module? The article module block functions link to the full node page. I was hoping I could get weblinks block function to do the same.

Thanks
Rjspence

Is there a way to make the flexinode module so that it does not diplay the Title and Body texboxes? I wan't to be able to custimise the pages a little bit more so that I can change what it says instead of Body and Title.

Thanks

Mr Maggoo

I am trying to hack the image.module though I am not familiar with drupal's apis or core structures. My goal is to display the full-size version embedded image when viewing single node and to display the thumb-size version while viewing page listing several nodes (with teasers probably). So I must get the $main in the filter_process() function for the conditional process. It seems that the $main is NOT a global. Then, how can I get it or is it impossible in the current stage of drupal? Any guy can help? thanks.