@john-and-dee

I think I found the problem. At some point, you should have received an email requesting confirmation of your account creation, and clicked on a link in it. Either that email never got sent or you never responded. Because of that, you were in a usergroup called "users awaiting email confirmation." Which is why you could never log in.

I changed your usergroup to "registered users" which is what it should have been all along. You should be able to access forums. Your password should be the last one you used. If you need me to reset your password, I can, and can email it to you.

I have no idea how or when your usergroup got changed. I am so sorry for the continuing problem. Please let us know if you need more help.