ckk

Hi all, I just created my first drupal site, and now I need to create the user registration form. I guess I have to do that from scratch eh? Seems like there would be a template or widget, as all the user regs that I have entered my own stuff into for this type of site are primarily the same:)

But I think I have to learn CKK and Views anyway, so my first question is where to do that? I live in Nepal and video is painful here, so a text tut would be best. My second question is this:

I have been looking into the location mapper for the feedapi.
My rss feeds are provided by a affiliate-datafeeds to rss converter. This feed includes categories and georss information. I found the following issues:

1. RSS does not have other geo fields except the georss tags
2. The location mapper does not allow mapping other fields then the georss (makes sence after the first issue)
3. When solving 1 and 2 the locatiomodule will still attempt to find ‘better’ coordinates and throw away the provided onces

i broke my head on this for few days (and broke anyone on this group's b##ls i guess..)
i got to a solution now and want to share:

i am on drupal 6.10, Services, amfphp.
I have a content type called PHOTOS with 1 image_field.
I need to save the image to server, store it into drupal, then finally create/edit the node to link the image file to it.

My starting point is very similar with keystr0k's @ http://groups.drupal.org/node/20549, with the difference that he's using DrupalSite.as class.
I tried keystr0k's method and it didnt work for me, and it was too complex to debug.