[Tralala]

We did a full update to 3.5.3 with the hopes of initiating this excellent invite system, without having to turn on "Forum View" permission for guests (per Psionic Vision's note in the readme.html.)

But we're still having one issue with it: when an invitee clicks the email link to log in, they are told "You must be invited in order to be able to register on our board. Have a nice day."

(This happens despite the fact that the invitee is using the same link they were invited with.)

Now, we've set this as our forum's default skin. It's a integral part of our forum's atmosphere and focus.

I notice that if the invitee uses the QuickStyle Chooser to switch to vBulletin's Default theme upon invite, then the invite goes through and then they can continue with the registration properly. I've tested it all the way through and it works, keeps referral's name intact and everything. It just doesn't work if the user doesn't manually change the style first with the QuickStyle Chooser pull-down below.

So is this is an issue specifically with our third party skin, and is there a workaround? Would this have anything to do with the "Forum View" permission issue in 3.5.2 and earlier?

I'd hate to have to change our default skin now back to vBulletin just to work around this, yet it's the only thing now standing in our way. I also don't see a way to set the default skin for solely the "Unregistered / Not Logged In" usergroup back to vBulletin... as that would have been an acceptable workaround too.

Now, we tried appending "&styleid=1" to the end of the invite link, in invites_letter, as that "forced" them in with the vBulletin original skin. But then the cookie is set, and they eventually validate their email and their account is approved, they log back in and they are still in the vBulletin original skin. :ermm: I'd like for them to welcomed inside with our customized skin, of course.

Any assistance with this last speedbump would be mightily appreciated.