Regarding " bahama and bluestar " problems getting the validation e-mail. I took the advice of a poster, registered a google email account, and problem solved.
Received the validation e-mails from the forums and Net 7, in less then 10 secs from registering.
Must be something with bellsouth.net e-mails. They maybe treating the validation e-mails as spam on their servers, never even letting me see them. Don't know.
Sagewisdom