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dont think so. but will be a great community contributed module. you should do a web search, this has come up on the past and there might be some code snippets floating around

lobo

that is a good starting point. would be cool if you could package it in a drupal module

for your second question, depends on what you mean by "own administrative area with their own unique contacts". if doing things like mailing / editing data of those contacts, then the answer is yes. you can manage it via ACL's. if more of blogs / forums / content etc, then OG is more appropriate

u might want to read the civicrm manual: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM

lobo