Help - this is becoming a huge problem. I made the changes suggested in this post to eliminate the "User Login" page title substitution. Worked fine EXCEPT, at the top of the loaded page, I get the word "Home" which was the page title and page description in Page Settings for the home page at the time the change was made, included in the HEAD portion of the HTML - at the end of the <link> loads for the various CSS files, and before the Shortcut Icon <link>. Here is a code snippet:

I cannot for the life of me find this anywhere it might logically be - like the signin.ascx.vb file, or in the template files, etc... What's really strange about this is the fact that it only happens on this specific portal (0) - which is the portal I was working in at the time of the modification to the vb file. All other portals under this don't exhibit the same behavior. Also, changing the skin to the stock-out-of-the-box DNN skins doesn't help, nor did restoring the original signin.ascx.vb file - even with a browser cache clear, an application cache clear and an application restart. HELP - this is a disaster because I don't even know how to resintall the whole DNN application to get back to scratch without losing all my data and changes.

<link id="_Portals_0_" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/Portals/0/portal.css" />
Home
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/Portals/0/favicon.ico" />
<title>
 Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Parish School
</title>
</head>

Man, do I feel like an idiot. Golden Rule - never panic, think first. I found the problem - on the page-settings, in the advanced section, somehow I placed the word "Home" in the "Header Tags" section, thus inserting text where there should have been HTML. Sorry again for the post. The work-around described herein worked fantastically, and our home page title is what it should be.