DyslexicDog

Drupal has a pretty tall learning curve, it's better to know some of the more popular modules out there before jumping in and trying to build a site with it. Check out the lullabot video series (worth every penny) for a good primer. I picked these up and made my money back x10 on my first drupal site. Drupal does require a little pre planning but then again every project / application does, that being said you can add new modules anytime you want and remove them too (little more time required here). You don't need a ton of PHP knowledge almost anything you need to do with drupal already has a module written for it. Yes you can modify any of the existing modules as they're written in PHP, beware this takes a strong PHP knowledge most of the time. Good luck...

Change it how? Change the look of it? Change the text used? You can add your own information to the end of the current breadcrumb by adding a simple php print statement to the end of your breadcrumb print. If you want to change the separators you will have to modify the preprocess function for breadcrumb variable. You can get this information using the theme module.

I don't think you get all three if you want really easy, you can try single template Volusion. Basically you only need to do the markup for the site. Fastest is relative to a lot of different things. If your Drupal / Ubercart setup was slow you probably need to change somethings with your configuration, possibly your hosting. A couple overzealous views in drupal can kill the performance of page loads. I don't think "best" is a quantifiable term.

I like Drupal.

When you click a link that link becomes :active

Be sure to mark your topic as solved.

Those would be accessed using the $_GET[' '] superglobal

Create a file upload system that drops the file to a upload inbox on your server. Then record the file location to the database.

Databases aren't designed to store image files, you'd be better off to upload that file to a dropbox area and then record it's location to the database.

looks like you're whois command isn't found in the default path. Try to determine where the whois command resides on the server, and be sure to include the full path to the whois executable.

Could you modify the scripts you found to only backup one table?

you could loop through an array of email addresses. Do you want the email addresses to be posted on the same form? If so you could have the input be comma separated and use explode() to break them out into array members.

Just use include()

When accepting incoming variables from web users you have to be as secure as possible. The first place you start is at the point of entry. If you're using a post method for incoming variables make sure you are accepting those variables using the $_POST[''] superglobal $_REQUEST can allow possible hack attempts. I could get more detailed with this but it's late.

Yes, the design was done on a mac and I run windows at home. From what I've read you can't transfer mac font files to windows, but you can transfer windows fonts to mac os x.