What determines the default values for select inputs will almost always be in a view.  For groups, look in mod/groups/views/default/forms/groups/edit.php.  The default is what is sent via "value."

Hi there,

I had the same problem with IE8 as described above (plus a few other people on my floor). I am hosting Elgg, tried all the nifty recommendations (thanks ;)   But this didn't really fix the issue. However, at the same time we were using Google Wave which requires an Add-on, ie the ChromeFrame extension in IE8.

When I disabled the chromeframe add-on in IE, my problems were gone and when I enabled the add-on I had them back. Just wondering if anybody still has this problem and whether disabling chromeframe did help you.       

Cheers

If none of those tricks work, and if you have this problem in multiple browsers, check to see if your email validation is disabled.  If it's disabled and the user has just registered, they can't log in. 

I am having the same issues listed about users can register, but cannot login in any Internet explorer version.  i have my site files on my home web server, but my domain hosting is with an online web hosting company. I forward my doain to the url on my computer, and i use their stealth option in order to hide my ip address in the address bar, so my useres will see the domain name. my site works in firefox and in google chrome, but i cannot log in in internet explorer. the only way that i could log into my website in internet explorer was by clicking Tools-Internet Options-Privacy and sliding the cookies settings from the default medium settings to the lowest settings that Accepts All cookies, and then I was able to log in. i don't want all of my users that vistit my site that use internet explorer to have to do that. My question is, what is it in the elgg cookie settings that makes internet explorer reject logins?