my brain hurts now.

Hi all. Brand new to this awesome program and site and have gotten some aspects to work but am having massive troubles with multiplayer and have several other questions. I've read through the tutorials tried to follow them to the best of my ability and post now in hopes of figuring these questions/issues out.
1) Are the cards that are in the shandilar world game interchangeable? Ive been playing the world game and haven't noticed any gold cards
2) Can I install different 'setups' of this game just by rerunning setup to different folders (IE One setup for world one for multiplayer etc)
3) Is manalink 2.0 a separate program or just the name for this project?
4) I attempted to use the multiplayer guide and when I try to host a game it says cant connect to that service provider (Verizon fios this pc connected right to the BB Modem.)
5) At this point should I uninstall/erase the MTG (97 ver) and 2010 ver that all ive gotten to work is the shandilar game, and start from scratch?
Thankyou in advance. gonna keep reading the forums to see if I can find what I have missed.
1) Are the cards that are in the shandilar world game interchangeable? Ive been playing the world game and haven't noticed any gold cards
2) Can I install different 'setups' of this game just by rerunning setup to different folders (IE One setup for world one for multiplayer etc)
3) Is manalink 2.0 a separate program or just the name for this project?
4) I attempted to use the multiplayer guide and when I try to host a game it says cant connect to that service provider (Verizon fios this pc connected right to the BB Modem.)
5) At this point should I uninstall/erase the MTG (97 ver) and 2010 ver that all ive gotten to work is the shandilar game, and start from scratch?
Thankyou in advance. gonna keep reading the forums to see if I can find what I have missed.