[hadley]

It was already set that way -- permissions for "Unregistered / Not Logged In" and "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation" are the same.

To be clear: I want to let anyone, registered or not, open up any of 11 different forums, and see all the titles of all the threads in that forum. However, only registered and confirmed people should be able to open a thread to view the posts within it.

This is what I'm currently unable to do. I.e., I can force them to register before opening a thread, but I can't figure out how to force them to confirm before opening a thread.

Within vB, I have the admin choice to set "view threads" -- which means really means, view all contents of threads. I need two on/off levels: "view thread titles" and "view thread contents."

Btw, in the admin panel I can go to -->
User Groups | Forum Permissions
to do this, or to -->
Forums & Moderators | Permissions
-- and it's the same result, right?