(but i'm not a complete idiot either, i can handle basic stuff, but i am by no means a web developer)

google "creating elgg user types" ;-)

I have had a look.   and can't find anything that makes sense to me, sorry :P

if you know of a site that has the information is there any chance of a direct link?   i found a post about someone trying to do something similar, but couldn't find anything on how to actually achieve it.

ok.. what you want **exactly has been asked before here and/or google elgg groups...

it can be done eother by "hacking" into the code or creating a plugin to do that- either way -- wil nedd some Elgg-know-how and usually somewaht decent php acumen..

Thanks,

php i was trying to learn, but i really don't have time to do it,i'm a sound engineer and musician, so that's a no go.   and i only found elgg a few days ago, so i'm not that sure on how it works.

oh well, i'll leave this open, hopefully someone else who had the same requirement that made a plug-in would be so kind as to share it with me.

Thanks anyway.

just read through that.

doesn't seem to reach a conclusion on what you need to do to achieve the desired result.

I have however found Kevin Jardines forms plug-ins, and am going to test to see if they can give me what i want...

kewl - i haven't looked at using Kevin's so cannot say, but from what i hear - might be just what works for you... ;-O

@Chrisbassist,

Have you made any progress on this?