Ok, another update ...
Still getting members placed in moderation and can't find a pattern as one had over 644 posts and the other just 8 posts. The 644 post member placed a post with one (1) link in their post while the 8 post member just mad a regular post with nothing obvious that would trigger it being placed in moderation.
Settings in Spam-O-Matic as follows:
Auto-Moderation: URL Count = 0 (academic since according to previous instructions, the "Minimum Post Count" at 0 should turn OFF this function anyway)
Auto-Moderation: Minimum Post Count = 0
Akismet as handled by Spam-O-Matic is ENABLED with ID.
Vbulletin Akisment handling was OFF ...
Not sure what to do next, but as much as we think that this mod has nice potential and its author is making efforts to sort it out, we're going to have to un-install Spam-O-Matic and go back to vBStopForum mod which was working fine, even with vBulletin's Akismet running concurrently.
Perhaps we'll try it later on when the "kinks" have been worked out ...
Thanks for everyone's efforts ...
Regards,
Badger