Module development and code questions

Some of you have probably noticed my filehandler.module which is in my sandbox. It's a combination of the fileapi and nodeapi which gives the module it's power to let you attach any file to any node-type.

What i want to know is what people expect from a filehandler. You can upload documents, images, audio, video or whatever kind of files to your items (nodes).

I submitted a new module (signup) months back in April. Since then, I have added a CVS tree, and a sample site. A few other people have used it. However, I can't edit this information until the module is approved.

Is there anything I can do to get the module approved?

I'm trying my best to use the nodeapi hooks to mail a certain subset of users when a node is changed from 'unpublished' to 'published', which from observing the database, apears to be when $node->status changes from 0 to 1. I asume I should be using the "update" hook, with a little trickery to make sure I only send e-mails the first time an "update" is performed and status=1.

I wrote the following code, however I see no output from any of the print statements when I publish a node from the content administration page.

See http://apacam.dyndns.org/drupalattach.html where I compare 7 modules:
attached_file, attached_image, image, node_image, attachment, filestore2, flexinode.

An image gallery/management application is a different beast, and flexinode is too,
but these others could probably all be collapsed.

I noticed in the repository mathias tweaking some things in the E-Commerece module this past week. I have not used it with Drupal 4.4.x or the current CVS version, but does it work? Or does it only work with Drupal 4.3.x? Any plans to make it work with Drupal 4.4.x or even 4.5.x?

I just clicked on a "Who's New" link as an anonymous user on the site I'm running, as was horrified to see every field in the profiles module displayed. The only thing anonymouse users have permissoins to on the site are "Access Content" and "Access provate Messages". So how come I'm seeing this dudes home address?

I'll be adding a permissions block to this module, tonight. Seems like it out to be there by default.

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