After much effort, I’ve managed to port over most of the necessary content from the old site into the Drupal one. Profiles really does make it a bit more… challenging.

End of the day and I’ve stumbled across two very promising modules:

Content Profile.

Creates profiles as nodes, opening them up to modules that work on nodes, including the CCK.

Issues:

• It’s beta, and I’m not sure if it will be rc before we need to get our first iteration live.
• It may require a completely different migration of data.

Profile Roles.

Allows me to specify which profile fields are exposed to which roles, which is the primary reason I’d want to enhance what Profiles currently does. I need to have Instructors filling out the additional details only when they are instructors! It’s smaller, but it’s ready now.

Issues

• This continues to use the problematic Profile module (in terms of data storage)

Gotta figure out what to do when I get back: I need to go check out the status of Content Profile, then make my decision.