[support] Sections Help

[Andrew Heagle]

Sorry if this question has been asked alot, and maybe I'm just beating a
dead horse here, but I've been looking for this problem for a bit now and
I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.  I'm not too familiar with all
the drupal jargon, but I do know how to setup the taxonomy stuff with the
vocabularies and terms and nodes and whatnot.

Firstly, I'm using the drupal package that is in the Debian repository
which currently is only 4.5.3.  If I have to I could install a newer
version.

I am wondering, on the main drupal site (http://drupal.org) the top right
area, the primary links, go to directories with the same name.    So the
support link goes to http://drupal.org/support and downloads goes to
http://drupal.org/project and so forth...   How is this set up?  Does each
sub directory have a different instance of Drupal running?  Is this some
module that they are using?  Is this a feature of a newer version of
Drupal?

I want to set up a site similar to the way this is set up, so an "about"
link would go to mysite.com/about instead of say
mysite.com/?q=taxonomy/term/9 or even mysite.com/?q=about if I set up a
url alias, but still have the said link (about) in the same drupal site
for administration purposes.  I haven't been able to figure out how to do
this with the default install, if it is even possible.

Also, how can I get the taxonomy vocabularies to create/display as primary
links dynamically.  If I make a new Vocab (category?) and then it'll show
up there?  Right now I have to manually create them in the themes area.

Lastly, is there a module so that if you clicked one of the primary links
or even just go to one of the taxonomy's vocabulary to give a list of all
the terms inside.  For example, my "about" vocab has resume, contact,
links for nodes (terms?) underneath.  How can I get it so that when a user
goes to the About section, there is a secondary list of links for
"resume", "contact" and "links" but if they go to another section like
Guides there are other secondary links for guides but not for About.   I
have a feeling that Drupal does not work in this way but I wanted to
confirm this.


TIA!
Andrew