Re drawing the Prophet: there's nothing mentioned in the Quran itself about the perils of imaging him in any shape or form. In the Hadith, I believe he stresses that he is an ordinary man and should be treated as such, with no special attention drawn to his person, which is where the whole do-not-produce-the-likeness-of-the-prophet thing originated.
Islam is fairly fragmented, though, and there are many examples of Muslims imaging Mohammad throughout the history of the religion without anything bad happening as a result.