Thanks - for the reply here are the things I did - the DNN installation is 4.5.3

I log in as host - 

I go to the "admin" menu I click "user accounts" and then click "Manage user profiles"

I then make several fiels "required" (FirstName, Lastname, Address, et)

I go back to the "admin" menu click "user accounts" then click "user settings" i place a check mark in "require a valid profile for login" and place a check mark in the "require a valid profile for registration"

Then I log out and log in - It says please "Please update your profile before continuing" and the update icon is at the bottom of the page - however no fields are visiable. 

So I can't update the profile thus I have locked myself out.

So What I believe I did wrong is I must have unchecked the "visiable" box on all the fields when I was flying through it the other night - 

I guess what I would need to do then according to your post is to open the DB and make the fields visiable again.  

Unfortunatly I'm new to dnn, I really enjoy it but am not an SQL guy, I see the DB and can get to it from the host side - what program would I use to open it and what do you think the visibility field is named?

Thanks again for your help 





  

thanks, that did the trick - I email my hosting company your reply and they actually did it for me thats was great!!! I totaly appreciate your insight and it totally makes sense now