Hi, well I should have waited 15 minutes before posting. I figured out a hack to make it work. In the main joomla index.php file, around line #155, change;
If you would be so kind and tell us which bridge your using.
Orstio's SMF-Joomla bridge v3.19a
or
JoomlaHacks v1.02a
or maybe some other
this has been a problem for a lot of people and a solution will help a LOT of people
Well I don't think it is for JoomlaHacks as I tried it on that and it still does not work. Thanks for trying though. Sure would be nice if someone would do a fully opperational plugin. I for one am getting tired of these half way working options for a forum. I think I am going to move over to JoomlaBoard as it is fully intigrated and fully functional, Just wish they had a little more going on in the way of updates/additions. If they would start adding more features I believe that this would sweep the field for Joomla forum oftware.
It is the Joomlahacks version 1.0.2a. If it doesn't work you might want to take a look at the login form HTML (view source) and check that the FORM tag is really going to something like: