WOO HOO Garvin! It worked!

So can I set the debug back to false then so members don't see that when they register??

I can't thank you enough for your help!

Garvin-

Wierd that you were able to register without an error (the error was coming when you try to activate the email address) -

anyway I did as you suggested & overwrote that file...

upon registering a new user I got the activation email right away. When I clicked on the activation link I got ...

I hope I did this right ;)

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