woot, it worked! Thanks for that
The above worked fine now that i have disabled moderation of new members. When moderation of new members was still enabled after the above mods and i accepted the 2-3 new members, they still seemed to fall into the id=15 usergroup !
I intend not to use moderation again but was just puzzled by this as i couldn't find any more refrences to userid=2 *shrug*