Martin Dougiamas

No, changing course settings won't affect forums.

The user profile only lists discussions they have started, not all posts.

I would suggest being really careful changing things in the databases directly - it's quite rare that data needs correcting ... the code contains a lot of consistency checking. "id" fields are just a unique number, and not necessarily the main key for that table.

It's a bummer - I don't have any ideas on this one, nor have I seen it before. The Choice code is not particularly complex, though, so debugging the problem shouldn't be too hard.

There are three tricks I use to solve almost every Moodle problem:

1) Turn on the 'debug' variable in "Configure Variables" - when you try the Choice you might get a new error message that provides a clue.

2) Add this: $db->debug = true; somewhere in the code. This will make all the SQL statements visible on the page.

3) Add lines like: print_object($variable); in the code to get dumps of objects, arrays or plain variables, so you can track what data is going where.

This sounds a bit like sessions aren't working properly on the server. After your crash did you need to re-install stuff?

On Windows you can't use "built-in" mail, you will have to specify the address of a nearby SMTP mail server. You do this in the 'Configure Variables' page of Moodle (smtphosts setting).

Yes, it's an interesting area. One of the vague plans I have for way down the track is to build a clearing-house site that integrates within Moodle sites, so that you can publish or download whole courses, resource libraries, quiz question sets, surveys, modules etc by clicking on a few links.

This would be well after Moodle 2, though. Lots to do, still!