Oh, so that's what the "write page" feature is for? Ever since installing 1.5, I was like "what's that all about??" hehe but I'd never try it out, it's just there. I wonder what uses I could find for that then, sounds k-rad...haha.
Twister, the purpose of the pages is to have static pages outside of the blogging framework...basically, so you can create static pages. As for the comments on these pages, yes http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35180 I don't know about file uploading.