Plone research

I have been looking around the plone website in search of plugins and modules that will allow me to facilitate the requests of Mike and the SWITCH team. I have come across two plugins that I believe will come in quite handy. TeamSpace allows administrators to create groups and add members to those groups. This way only members of specific groups are able to access content is if their group has permissions on the content in question. Also ploneboard adds a message board functionality to the plone interface to allow discussion of many topics. My first attempt at installing these plugins was unsucessful. I will try to do some troubleshooting and see if I cant get them installed this week.