[mustang_lex]

Maybe if I explain my purpose there may be a totally different way.

My website is a Woman/Mustang Showcase website.

I wanted to have a Community (Vbulletin)
and have a Showcase (Coppermine, WSN which ever I can get working)

The showcase will only be accessible for Stangettes (usergroup ID9) to be able to add photos to their albums and everyone else can only view, rate and comment. But cannot create there own showcase profile.

This BTW i been working on first and having better success.

Then theres the community. I was hoping to have this be the initial entrance, thereby a new person can either register to be a "Registered Member" (activated by email) to view and rate and comment and also have a vbulletin UserCP like normal,

or the person if SHE meets the minimum requirements (1 photo and is in fact a female) can register to be a Stangette (Usergroup ID9) (activated by admin or mod approval)

I been looking at these options

1) 2 seperate registrations
2) joining a group (i which replacing the usergroup ) didn'y work
3) use the registration form from the Gallery (coppermine etc...) but heard it conflicts with vbulletin.

I hope this makes sense. as this is the point of Stangette.com