I haven't received a hint from any of you and hence am
trying to repost. I am sure many of you would have worked with this simple
task which I need help with.

I am pretty new to Sharepoint Portal Server. My environment is Win 2003
SE, Sql Server 2000 SP 3, SPS 2003. As a first step in my project I need
to create a document library. I have loads of documents that get created
(or modified) every day. Each of these documents are categorized. I
guess I can create a similar hierarchical structure under topics and
upload each of these documents. What I do need to do along with this is
on the home page I need to show recent documents (i.e. those that were
added or modified in a day or two). Can any of you share your experience
and show me how to accomplish this task???

Since I am pretty new, I may not be taking the right path. You all are
more than welcome to post suggestion on how I should build up a document
library (it will have Word & PDF documents). On the home page I would
like to see only new / modified documents while some place I should be
able to see each one of them (probably in a hierarchy)