Aha... it's all in the name, believe it or not. I see you've been around six years; maybe a year or two after you joined, the system was changed slightly. See, users with non-alphanumeric characters in their handles were having problems using some of the features, like chatting in flash areas (Towns, for example) and, in some cases, even with logging in. The developers figured out that it had to do with the unusual characters causing some kind of parsing error, I think. Anyway, new users and users changing their handles actually can't use characters such as brackets and things anymore, and users who do still have them might run into snags now and then. For logging in, though, you don't have to use the user name -- you can log in with your user number (3532264 -- the number string at the end of your profile URL) or your email address instead. wink