Robax, thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion and I went into the "Security Roles" page and the "Administrators" role had the "Auto" checkbox unchecked. I figured I might have unchecked this after registering, when messing with some settings, so I created the "Forum Member" role as you suggested and checked the auto-assigned option. As you said, the "Registered Users" role already had the "Auto" field checked, and this could not be undone.
So, I tried registering again, and once I signed up, it automatically logged me in as the new user with Administrator privelages. I logged out, and logged back in with the host account and clicked the "User Accounts" page in the "Admin" section. I then clicked the "Edit" icon next to the newly registered user, and clicked on "Manage Roles For This User". The security role dropdown was set to "Administrator".
Is there any other setting that could automatically register a new user as an administrator? I removed the "Subscribers" role after I first installed DotNetNuke. Could this affect anything?
Any help is much appreciated.
thanks!
Greg