V5 is theme and template driven so many options are now a matter of editing the template.
You will need the spHead.php template. Load it up in the SP theme editor and you will find the template functions class for login, registration and the login form. They should be real easy to spot. You can just remove them or comment them out.

As always we recommend making your own theme to avoid losing customisation during a future upgrade.

Gotcha!  Thats fantastic – and definitely easy to go in and find what you are looking for!  Thank you!

Any thoughts on the disappearing text boxes?

My guess is this will be a CSS styling conflict with your theme (or possibly another plugin). if you know how to use Firebug or your browsers developer tools then you should be able to track it down to see what CSS is being applied.

Does it happen everywhere within the forum or just the login form?

So far it seems to be ONLY on the login…

seems as soon as I type in the box something is is changing it from display:inline to display:NONE…thus the disappearing box!  i’ll keep hunting with firebug and report back

Are you not removing that anyway?

Haha….well….yes I think….but I am also open to keeping it because it is very attractive, and if I use a full page setup the only login would be in the footer and a login towards the top would be useful as well.  Glutton for punishment?  

Right now I’m just seeing an inline element making the opacity 0…….not the best with investigating using firebug…having the issue at http://schools.borislow.com/forum/ 

Ah interesting. Something is embedding an opacity style statement into the text input control when it becomes selected – via javascript. So this is not being done through a stylesheet. It is also not being done by SP. Probably theme or plugin related. No ides what i am afraid.

Just a word of caution…. now I have looked at your source I see theme or plugin is loading jQuery and the jQuery UI from outside sources instead of using the WP versions. This may well cause some items within SP to just not work although you may be one of the lucky ones.

Thank you again for the expertise!!!

I will hunt through the theme….(see? glutton for punishment)….I did disable all of my plugins and it did not correct itself, so that’s leaving me with it being a theme issue!

Well – it didn’t look that bad to me.

Thanks =)

I just like to torture myself sometimes….even though I’m 50/50 whether I’d even use it, I still want to make sure if I want to use it, it will work….looks like it *might* be related to fancybox.

EDIT:  by disabling (changing the filename of) jquery.jcarousel.min.js the problem goes away…so that seems to be part of the issue…

I have no idea what that does. But the cause will be in the component that uses it I guess.