Yeah I've been poking around the drupalEd myself and have been impressed. They basicly did what I was wanting to do with Drupal to begin with when I started, without me having to find and configure all the modules for it. Have you looked at the geyroups function yet.....I think it is a nice alternative to forums. When a user writes a blog they can link it to multiple groupfs at once and then users in any of those groups replies with a comment and it shows up in all the other linked groups. And I like the education angle it has with creating classes, I could see this very usefull in having them serve as invite only and having certin members with permisions to buildl them. for instance, You could do a Bio-Regional Animism 101 course, and Reene could do a course on interspecease communication, and desert spider on land dancing. We could apprach users if they would be willing to host a class about something, or have a place for people to submit requests - giving a little controle without a lot of hiarchy to just jently steer conversations in the proper places.

Was that you that uploaded the image velve did - I was trying to change the themes and that image poped up hoging the whole screen and I didn't know where to disable it or where that change was made. The ED versions has a lot of modules in it and it is missing a PM but that can be installed seperatly - right now it uses email forums and I dont think many peo ple would care for that. Secondly siteground is going to reset all the server options to the defaults - which means the current data will be lost - so its going to disipeer for a short time and then whith all the defaults restored that i destroys I am thinking drupal Ed is the way to go? you think?