Everyone is a guest until they post or edit their profile or such.
Every time you connect to the internet and open your browser you are reset to a guest. This explains why at any given time you see about half of the browsers are guests (most likely they are board members who haven't posted yet).
If you don't want to be a guest, go in and edit your profile, but change nothing. This will set the log-in information and people will see you.
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Most Subtle Official Straightman of the Laughing Hyenas -- Grammarian Brigade.
"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom." -- Thomas Huxley