Small help and recommendations

[Trias]

Ok i'm going ok so far here's my current focus.  Just humour me.  Pretend
you were a noob once :D

1) Whining on Wine?  Wine does in fact have a 64 bit version i got that much
going it seems.  There's a reference to a fake c:/ to put the windows apps
in which *seems* to be in my 'aaron' user folder but when i look it isn't
there.  Also if I do a seach under file system for winecfg nothing is found
even though typing 'winecfg' in the terminal brings up the config.  I know
getting wine to work with an app may take some effort so i'm not too
impatient here.

2) Is it possible to install java (not just the firefox plugin) in the 64
bit ubuntu?  When i tried the official pages download i got a message saying
it was the wrong version, a 32 bit one.  I can't seem to find the 64 bit one
on their site.

3) When i used MSOutlook i used calender contacts tasks and mail.
Lightning/sunbird was recommended but the lightning file does not install.
I would like recommendations for the others ie contacts, tasks.  I am using
thunderbird for email at this time.  Evolution which does have all those was
said to be fairly poor.

4) When i type ls which is one of the very few commands i remember from unix
i get coloured file names.  Is there a place to find out what these colour
codes mean?

5) When i try to access my windows partition it asks for a password and it's
mostly hunky dory except that it doesn't remember it and later on i have to
do it again to see the 'disk' (eg in 'places' and the file browser) and it's
contents.  It is also set to read only.  Can that be changed or is writing
to a windows partition from linux error prone?

6) How do i safely change the partition so the windows one shrinks and linux
one grows?

7) Is there a good cd/dvd burning program you could recommend?

That'll do for now :)
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