
Ok so I finally set up my motd.org site with drupal. I only had one problem to resolve so it was painless.
I didn't use the motd command to set up drupal because I wanted the latest version. My only problem was I had was a complaint about mbstring settings. Drupal tries to modify these settings in .htaccess but that doesn't work on SDF. This was resolved by adding this to the top of install.php and sites/default/default.settings.php:
ini_set('mbstring.http_input','pass');
ini_set('mbstring.http_output','pass');
Maybe someday when I'm bored I'll actually add this version of drupal to motd's RCS.