[ThePiston]

looks like this is the hook in register.php:

PHP Code:

    // register IP address
    $userdata->set('ipaddress', IPADDRESS);

    ($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('register_addmember_process')) ? eval($hook) : false;

    $userdata->pre_save();

    // check for errors 


I added

PHP Code:

$userdata->set('usergroupid', $user['usergroupid']); 


under

PHP Code:

$userdata->set('ipaddress', IPADDRESS); 


but that didn't work either... i'll keep trying.

actually nevermind - we decided to require email activation - problem solved