How do I do X?

I am trying to use view slideshow ddblock (http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow_ddblock) to build a home page slideshow. The module seems awesome and it will fulfill everything I need to get my slideshow done in time for my deadline of tomorrow.

There is one rub, the site that say hosts the documentation and the free themes that would make my life much easier, it is down:
http://ddblock.myalbums.biz

Is there anyone out there using view slideshow ddblock that has any of the free themes or the zip (vsd-upright10-60-V1-2.zip)? If I had an example theme it would be quite helpful.

Hello - I live in Des Moines and have started a missing pets web site and would like to install a proximity filter.

I have tried:

Location module - spent maybe 30 hours trying to configure. no idea what I am doing wrong. One thing which I would like to avoid if possible is the need to maintain a zipcode database, it seems a source of trouble.

Openlayers - seems a popular module but the proximity module has very little activity, and I can not find a single tutorial.

Geo - tried to install, got what seems to be a common error message.

My boss and I are looking for ways that we can share documents containing account logins and URLs. We only need to share between 3 users and need to access these files on our work machines, home machines, and potentially lab machines via a web login. I was looking into dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com/) as a potential solution and I was curious if anyone has had any experience with dropbox or any other solutions for something like this.

Thanks,
Purcell

I am having some issues with panels. I inherited a site where users use panels to create a 3 column layout for a certain type of page. (http://library.drake.edu/pharm-virtual-lib)

I thought that cloning a panels page would make a copy of that page and its panels, under different node names and ids. Instead it appears to basically make an alias that presents the exact same page under a different path, so editing any content on this cloned page edits the original page that was cloned as well.

I am reading through "Pro Drupal Development" a bit and I am a bit confused about how theming and css work (maybe I just have not read far enough yet).

I am working on master.css within a theme. I modify master.css, drop it back into the correct location within sites/default/themes/themename, but when I refresh the web page and view the css, my edits are not in the css.

Does drupal cache or do something else with css files when it strips out whitespace and generates one csss file?

(any suggestions for how to fix this or even places to read up on theming and css would be awesome)

How do I apply some css rules only to a specific page? I am scraping content from another part of the university site onto a panel for one of the librarians at work. Unfortunately there is a default css rule in the theme that is applying a top border to tables that I do not want to appear in this panel (yes, I know tables are evil for anything other than tabular data, but I don't have much control over what I am getting).

http://library.drake.edu/educ-virtual-library
(all of the grey bars in the central column are my issue)

I've written a function that accepts a user ID and pulls associated teacher profile data (courtesy title, first name, last name, etc.) to display a teacher's name in 'proper' school form. For instance, my username of Mark McFate appears in key places (where students have access) on my site as simply "Mr. McFate". The function is named "stc_user_profile_title" and was intended to be part of my "stc" custom module. The function is currently called from a few templates in my theme and it works nicely.

I found out I'm not getting delete because I removed $content from the node-contenttype.tpl.php file. I removed $content because I wanted to customize what fields showed and where/how the fields displayed on the page. I pull the values for display directly from the node object. When I add $content back in I get the delete button, but I also get all the unformatted fields dumped at the end of the page when just viewing it. Is there supposed to be a better way to handle what gets thrown in $content?

Got an apparent autocomplete problem at the IowaGeocachers.org site. The same problem appears there for both node-reference and user-reference auto completions.

Is it possible to use workflow states with panels? Ideally, being able to have a revision of a panels page go through the same process as other types of content.