[creativepart]

Here's how I fixed the author problem.

Every time I give one of my VB users "author' status, I turn off integration and create a user in the old WP user system with the same username as the username he has in VB. Then I turn integration back on. From that point on when that user creates a post the correct username shows up. And, at that point that username is on the author list too. So, I can assign his name to any post that needs it. However, I haven't needed to fix it once.

So far it's working great.