I saw such a feature you are asking for in the debaser audio module. The popup windows appear in the blocks of the module when you do mouseover the links in the blocks.

Hey, developers!
I am puzzled of how to make a certain block appear in a pop-up window at a certain page I chose to?

For example I choose index.php page for POLLS block in left column and it appears there. But my idea and purpose is to have that block to appear as a pop-up window at that index.php page when each visitor comes to my site, thus I am enforcing the people to vote in 99,9%.

Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

Yes, the "problem" is with the 4.1 version and higher. You are right that we should know the version of the DB because if the queries are sent to 3.22 there will be an error, because this version doesnt understand these commands.
So, I AM GLAD THAT YOU UNDTERSTOOD the problem and keep it in mind to bring it to reality, to have the problem with the encodings for current mySQL DB versions fixed in XOOPS.

The problem is that starting from mySQL 4.1 the default charsetting in the DB is used as UTF-8. Thus, migrating from mySQL 3.22 and having all my DB dump in cp1251 encoding that is cyrillic encoding, I have to put in the files mysqldatabase.php and databasefactory.php the following things
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in order to force the MySQL to write and read the data as cp1251 but not as utf-8. This is crucial for Russian and other non 7bit encodings. Thus, upholding LazyBladger's request and upsetting with the supject, I do pledge the XOOPS developer's comamnd to make right support for using non unicode 8bit encodings, for the mySQL DB's with versions higher 3.22, i.e. 4.1 and higher.

When I do want to register at my website that is running XOOPS 2.0.10 the PHP gives me an error that Session is already started at line 177 in file include/common.php

I have fount small resolution to that when turning off the custom session in preferences. BWT even in this case sometimes the register.php page fails to procede and when the person enters his information and presses OK, the should appear next page for his approval of the entered data, but in this case the page is empty and PHP debug says that session is already started.

So, tell me please, if the XOOPS team found resolution for this problem? This is real problem.

I have installed XOOPS 2.0.10 RC2 and have created additional goup of Moderators, who would submit and approve different information, i.e. in news, links, downloads modules. I have set permission to access the modules and administer them. So, in this way the people in this group of Moderators could add, delete and approve articles, links and files. BWT, there arises a problem, because with such permissions these people could simply delete all the information that is under the modules in mySQL DB, or reconfigure the modules, but I don't want that.

Since I was using PHP-Nuke for 4 years at christ4you.org (still it remains there but I do purpose to migrate to XOOPS until the end of the month), the PHP-Nuke has such permission system, i.e. the users of Moderators group could add submitted articles, links and downloads to the DB, but can't reconfigure the modules and delete the information that was inserted by other Moderators in the same group. For example, I am an Administrator and do have full access to the DB and the XOOPS in any way, and do have three people who are my Moderators and I do want just to allow them to approve submitted news, links and downloads and nothing more. But how to do that? As to the phpBB forum, I do restrict total access to administering the module and just point their nicnames in the configuration of the phpBB and it works.