I just took a closer look and by viewing the source of the rendered page there is a link there with no text so it was not visible in the browser but does exist.

<a href="Register.aspx" id="ctl00_mainContent_LoginCtrl_lnkRegister"></a>

It seems there is an extra link besides the one I showed the hide logic for. My best guess is its just a relic from the old implementation before 2.0 .NET came out and provided a LoginControl we had implemented our own. I think this link can be safely removed from the Logoin.aspx file using a text editor, look for this and remove it:

<br /><a id="lnkRegister" href="Register.aspx" runat="server"></a>

I just removed it from my copy and it seems fine.

Hope it helps,

Joe

I would look in the mp_Sites table and ensure that the AllowNewRegistration field is set to 0 

Hope it helps,

Joe

I had a feeling that was the case. I think it was a bug in the Site Settings page where it would look like that was false in the UI (when using LDAP) when in fact it was true in the db, but it was not persisting it correctly in that case from the site settings page. I have corrected it recently in svn but I'm not curretly setup to test LDAP so haven't verified the fix.

Best,

Joe