So my experimental website doesn't work :-).
I'm not sure what the cause is, but once you sign out of an account, you can't sign back in.
There's a long thread about the problem on the Drupal site. I tried many of the suggested fixes, but it still fails to log me in correctly on both my home machine and work machine.
This probably has to do with how php has so many settings that are determined by your webhost, that it makes it rather difficult to write portable code.
Perhaps I should try another CMS. Plone looks interesting but also very complicated. Plus dreamhost doesn't run Zope. Aren't there any simple python-based ones?