When you visit the Board, you will be asked to either enter your username and password or register for a new account. Choose the latter option and follow the signup directions.

When you register, a validation email will be sent to the address that you supplied during signup. As soon as you receive the email and follow its instructions, your membership will be active.

A small percentage of AOL users MAY have problems with repeated logouts on this board. A common error message will refer to a 'Invalid Session Error'. Most ISPs give you an IP address that stays the same the entire time you are online. But some AOL services change your IP address as you browse between pages. Phpbb and many other BBS systems see these IP changes as potential hijack attempts. You end up getting logged out or your session declared invalid. There's no way around this at present. The situation seems to be unique to a small segment of AOL users. If you are experiencing this error, one possible way around it is to contact your ISP and ask if they can assign you a 'static IP', or an IP address that remains the same each time you logon. But PLEASE don't send us emails asking us to 'fix it' -we can't! If phpbb comes up with any fixes in future upgrades, we'll apply the fixes, but til then, it's out of our hands.

If this happens, you likely mistyped your email address when you registered. It's also possible that your email's Junk Mail or Spamguard settings are too high. Send an email to questions@deadoralive.net letting us know what username you picked, so we can delete the account and let you re-register. All board-generated confirmation and news mails come from 'rose@deadoralive.net', so try also adding that to your email 'safe list'.

We do not have access to your password, but don't panic! While your password cannot be retrieved it can be reset. To do this go to the login page and click "I've forgotten my password". Follow the instructions and you should be back online in no time.

No. Huge digital images can take up massive amounts of storage space on our server. Get a Yahoo online album instead and let fans know about it in a forum post.

Yes, and they frequently make announcements through Rose.

If you're inputting the correct user name and password, then chances are that your account was removed for a good reason. We do not tolerate the harrassment of other posters, and if you've been having too much fun at someone else's expense, the fun will be short-lived.