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Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

Are you 100% sure his email address is not banned? Try to signup a new account using the same email provider.

The error message is most likely caused by a modification.

To troubleshoot this, please remove any hacks and disable your plugins, then see if you still have this problem.
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

If so, reupload all the original vB non-image files (except install.php). Make sure you upload these in ASCII format and overwrite the ones on the server.

I have tried to upload in ascii but the forum doesn't show up right.

I was able to register using the email address the user provided.

One question. I'm coming up with a lot of database errors. If I just try to upgrade to VB 4 will I still get those errors. Also, when I tried to re-install 3.8.5 the re-install stopped after I chose to upgrade; it said webpage cannot be found. So I don't know what would happen if I tried to upgrade to 4.0.