I just re-read my post and realized it probably wasn't clear exactly what I'm looking for.
Basically all I want to know is how I can have a user go into VB already authenticated and able to post without haveing to log in. I figure there must be a pretty easy hack for this, either by:
1)passing in authentication through the URL (the "s" variable?)
or
2) by changing a setting in the users' cookie
Of course the user would have already registered as a user and been approved.
I'm sure someone else has run into this before (knock on wood

...if anyone could give some insight/thoughts I'd really appreciate it.
thanks in advance for the help,
Don