Mark, I think Register goes away when you turn off the setting that makes it a public site. That has been gone, I'm almost positive, since we made it a private site.
Yes, we are still having the problem, and here's a new clue:
The main site is Portals\0, and I have another site on Portals\1 (www.ttuckertech.com). Both have the login issue, but when I tried to logon to ttuckertech.com this morning, I get an error that (kicking my own butt) I did not write down at the time because I thought I could recreate it.
The error contained wording that a critical error occurred, that the maxrequestquerylength (or something like that) exceeded maximum length.
The error was displayed on the main page, above the Top Pane.
I hope this is a good clue.