Hi if you set numberofnonalphanumeric to anything but 0 in the web.config before installing,when the install process is running it does not check to see if you used a nonaplanumeric when filling in the superuser 'host' password. you can click next with no issues but when you complete the install there is no superuser created and the first admin account is shown as creat by user -1 in the users table. just need to add the missing validate field code to the create superuser page... anyway great to see this project moving forward, wish the out of the box forum were like yaf or some of the better php boards out there, really lacking in this dept.