I've had a bit of trouble with registration to the Metaverse, also. I think i just tried it at a heavy time, though. I must agree that cursing on these forums is not appreciated, although as a girl in my human rights class said on day one "sometimes, you just gotta roll like that."
As far as the modding goes, just open everything in notepad and follow their lead. Most of the times you don't even need to write tags, just figure out what tags do (they're mostly self explanitory) and change the values, or copy a whole section of their code and change it how you like. I still haven't figured out a couple of things, like how to change shipcfgs, those seem realyl complex, but that isn't really important. It's probably one of the easiest games to mod out there....just take some time to learn.
