First I tried, "PROJECT EXAMPLES-HOW-TOS"
Then I tried "PROJECT-EXAMPLES-HOW-TOS"
Then "CATEGORY:PROJECT-EXAMPLES-HOW-TOS"

I tried typing all of that three seperate times into the New box.
However, I think I created 3 blank topics instead of creating a new
category.  I tried to add links to my new category on the main indexes
of the QM pages, however, it is rightfully telling me that they don't
exist.

Anyway, the whole point of all of this was that I was going to create a
new CATEGORY and add that topic (the long article about rsync, and
mirroring QM boxes), to that category.

I was trying  to reorganize a bit because it sounded good in my head...

In the abscence of your being here to answer this, I'll opt for the
latter:

The topic called "CATEGORY:" is my "master index. Since you are not
adding a whole new category, like "Dogs", let us assume for the moment
you are adding a new subset to QM.

So there is a topic called "CATEGORY:QM" which is an index of all the
sub-categories of QM stuff.

I see where you added in this topic your link to:
CATEGORY:QM:PROJECT-EXAMPLES-HOW-TOS, which would benefit from a less
cumbersome link tag, possibly along the lines of "Project examples
How-Tos".

So you actually did it just right. You just didn't jump off your new
link into your category to start populating it.

Let's see how you do with this. While I could fix it for you, you're
really close to havind done it yourself, and taking an initiative. I
like it.

Thanks,

j.

However, I think I still have the garbage one of:

"PROJECT EXAMPLES-HOW-TOS"

with a space in there instead of a dash.  I don't know how to delete
that.

It appears though that the little red underlining stays there
suggesting that the topic doesn't exist, even though it really does now.

Using the search box, Enter ":title project]"

This brings you to the only item in the database with that topic.

Then, click on the topic, then edit, then cancel out, because we forgot
that only admins can delete.

So basically, I just documented what I did for you. =)

To fix this, and I left it for you to see, edit the category item that
contains the red underline, then simply save it. Once refreshed, the
red line is gone.

Go ahead and give it a go.

Thanks,

j.