...you need to take a long time for trials and errors and then once you get it you can do everything you want.
The issues you have stumbled upon, is one, which is just being resolved. It is that of a chaotic module development. With the opening ofhttp://dev.xoops.org/ and the soon to openhttp://modules.xoops.org/, this will be resolved, but will still take some time.
Never the less I believe for your primary problem, there is a solution. Please take a look at ArMS. There it says:
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Description:
ArMS (Article Management System) is XOOPS 2 module for managing multipage articles, tutorijals and everything else that has multipage text content.
Key features:
- 4 level data strucure:
-- categories
--- section
---- articles
----- pages
- crossposting (one article in more than one section)
- coauthoring (author of article can add extra permission to other users to help him write and maintain article)
- rating 1 - 5 (in ArMS 0.4 it is option - can be turned off from admin)
- XOOPS comments and search
- articles can be OnHold (article is not finished)
- smart hiding (if category or section is empty it will be hidden)
- blocks
And I can only recommend taking a look at the other suggestion from sbkiller, the Multi Menu module. The might come in handy.
Unfortunatly still in beta, but maybe of this interest is a project from a couple of student over at UC Berkeley, related to the UCberkley_liquid theme, they are creating a module, that Quote:
allows webmasters to easily deploy a site based on tabs and sub-tabs (like apple.com)
Hope this is helpful to you, and might convince you to stay with us