N00b

I am working on a Secret Project and have a newbiesh Drupal 6 question.

We have three kinds of content (maybe determined by content type, maybe determined by taxonomy or something else). Let's call them "Intro", "Posts", and "Links". Each of these types of content has a tag.

This question is about how to create/manage a compound CCK element, allowing simulataneous creation/editing of the parent node and its children in a single form.

I have a CCK type (Project) that I want to be the parent class for a set of child elements (Benchmarks). the existing CCK "Motif" seems to allow me to create an array type under project that helps me to "Find" existing chlld elements. What I want to be able to do is create a project AND a series of child benchmarks (or at least one!) in one fell swoop.

Yep, I am a Drupal newbie. I am using Drupal for an organization I am now the secretary of. The old site was you're standard HTML site with standard HTML ... and we really need something more now, and I think Drupal is the best way to get that site up and running.

I'm not a newbie programmer. I've programmed in a number of languages over the years, and I am now a Senior Software Engineer with Java/J2EE technologies.

My Drupal install is having some issues. I am using:
resin 3.1.1 Community Edition
MySQL 5.x Community Edition
Drupal 5.1
All on OpenSuse 10.2 Linux.