I'm using amember trial on localhost. For free signups I would like to bypass the members.php page and redirect to the free protected area. When I say bypass what I mean is do not display the Your Information Page to free signups. I would want the same or similar action to the login process, where a person logs in and is directly redirected to the protected area. Can this be done? If so, what template modifications need to be used and which templates. Next I need to pass my own session vars to the protected area. Can I do this by putting session_start(), in one of the php files? Could you please tell me which one(s). I need to carry forward my own session vars until the free member is in the protected area. Hope that makes sense I would prefer to use amember because of the plugins and really don't want to code my own solution when it's already done. thanks FranklinJ