Hello Everyone! ...Jason Beaudoin here...
I've contacted the group that admnisters the servers for the Army.gc.ca site and I've told them to correct the problem with the forum database. They are hot and cold when it comes to acting on my requests, so I don't know how long it will take to correct the registration problem.
The reason why this problem exists is because we "upsized" the forum database from Access to SQL. We did this because Access is a notoriously poor performer. For example, Access can handle around 255 transactions per second, and SQL can handle around 76,000 per second. So it's a significant improvement on performance. Also, the Jet Drivers that run Access databases withold memory everytime a person accesses the database; this eventually leads to complete system crashes.
Anyway, I hope to have this problem resolved today.