wow - I've had this forum bookmarked FOREVER (well, a week or two at least) but registering has been a total nightmare!
On the registration page, there's the "visual" where you have to match the letters in the picture in order to register. Each time I tried, this was the bit I kept getting wrong. At first I thought it was the spacing between letters - most looked like they had at least one space between, some looked like there were several spaces. So I tried all sorts of combinations from no spaces at all to equal spaces between letters, to a different number of spaces between each. I was pretty sure I had the letters correct, and that none of them were numbers or distorted.
FINALLY I figured I'd try entering in LOWER case, a last-ditch effort, not actually expecting it to work. And that did the trick!
I have been through that registration page at least 20 times, trying different ideas to get those letters matched, and all along it just wanted me to key it in in lower case instead of upper (the picture showed capital letters).
I'd like to suggest either changing the picture to have the correct case and maybe squash up the letters, changing the validation to accept upper-case, or putting a bit of a clue there that spaces don't need to be entered, and letters should be lower case. And perhaps an email address someone can use if they just can't figure out the registration process (I checked some of the mods/admins profiles but the ones I looked at didn't show contact info) I don't know how many other poor suckers like me are out there - badly wanting to take part in this forum but struggling to get over the most basic step... The Help section also doesn't include an explanation of that bit of validation.
Anyway - I'm in now, so I can finally start telling people how great their tutes are!