Document Classes ⇒ Several things I can't manage to do with beamer

[yotama9]

Hi guys.

I want to do the following with beamer and I can't find how:

1. I want to have layout of the talk before the first section (the introduction) of my talk. How can I do this?

2. Usually, the layout section show the future section (apart from the next one) blurred and the previous section (plus the next section) in normal font. How can I change this so that the previous sections will stay the same, the next section will have a different color and the next sections won't be seen at all?

3. I want to cite a reference and the bibliographic information to be presented at the bottom of the slide. I tried to use the bibentry package for this but I can't find what is the *.bbl. The file is needed for the \nonbibliography command of the package. I tried to plug in the bibtex file without any luck. I have a vague memory that it is an automatic file that is generated while running latex on the file so I'm not sure what I should do with this.

Thank you.

Yotam